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Show Flying High HEIGHT U. S. air corps plane carrying 11.023-pound bomb load, soared 33,400 feet, compared with Germany's former mark of 30,551 feet. SPEED Another U. S. air corps plane took the bomber record from Italy by flying 259.398 m.p.h., compared com-pared with Italy's 251.878. Previously, Previous-ly, a "flying fortress" flew from Burbank, Calif., to New York in 9U hours, a new record. ENDURANCE Flying 219 hours. 43 minutes and1 still going on, Hunter and Humphrey Moody set a light-plane light-plane record, at Springfield, 111. DISTANCE Flying a 600-mile triangular tri-angular circuit, Italy's Col. Angelo Tondi went 7,763 miles for a new distance record. Former record: Japan's 7,239 miles. |