Abstract
Mr. Howard Hughes, with Messrs. Connor and Thurlow, navigators, Stoddart, radio operator, and Lund, engineer, landed at New York on July 14, at 7.37 B.S.T. after having flown a circuit of the earth in the northern hemisphere, well above latitude 40° N., following a course: New York—Paris- Moscow—Omsk—Yakutsk (Siberia)—Fairbanks (Alaska)—Minneapolis—New York. They covered a distance of 14,874 miles in 3 days 19 hours 17 minutes. Their actual flying time was 71 hours 4 minutes at an average speed of 209 miles an hour. They followed a somewhat similar route to that taken by the late Wiley Post, the American -aviator, who established a record of 7 days 18 hours 49 minutes for a flight of 15,250 miles in 1933. Their machine was a Lockheed '14' monoplane, powered by two 875 horse-power Wright 'Cyclone' engines with. Hamilton constant speed airscrews. Normally this type is a 14-seater air liner carrying 12 passengers and 2 crew. While this is a meritorious performance, having been completed in only seven stages, it is not a record for long-distance non-stop flight. The longest 'hop' was New York-Paris, a distance of 3,641 miles.
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'Round-the-World' Flight in Northern Latitude. Nature 142, 146 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142146d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142146d0