ATLANTIC CROSSED
IN SIX HOURS 20 MINUTES BRITISH PILOT’S REMARKABLE FLIGHT. IN LIBERATOR BOMBER. (British. Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, April 29. A new Atlantic air speed record has been set up by Captain W. S. May, of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Flying a Liberator, with a maximum all-up load of 56,000 pounds, and aided by a tail wind sometimes approaching 100 knots, he made a landfall to landfall crossing from Newfoundland (2,200 miles) in six hours, 20 minutes.
Operating for the R.A.F. transport command, Captain May flew on to an airfield inside Britain, registering only seven hours 40 minutes from take-off to landing. He thus reduced by 21 minutes the previous best tarmac to tarmac Atlantic flight, of eight hours one minute, accomplished 14 months ago by a pilot officer of the R.A.A.F., in a Hudson twin-engined bomber.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 4
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143ATLANTIC CROSSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 4
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