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Show SPEED IN THE AIR 4 DEMONSTRATED ii in this day of familiarify with speed in the air, it is amaz-S amaz-S to read that the Lockheed Conflation, Con-flation, a giant, ff! transport plane, crossed the con tinent from Burbank, Cahf, to Washington in six hours and fifty eight minutes. This means an average opeea of around 350 miles an hour and sets a new record for trar.sK,nti-nental trar.sK,nti-nental aviation. The Constellation carried seventeen persons and had room for forty add-.tional persons with luxury accommodation?, experts ex-perts say that as a troop transport, trans-port, it can carry 100 sobers with full equipment. I |