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Item # 568879
July 13, 1938
TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Massachusetts, July 13, 1938
* Aviator Howard Hughes
* Flight around World
This 10 page newspaper has two column headline on the front page that include: "Hughes Pauses At Yakutsk Upon His World Flight" and more. (see)
Other news of the day. Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise good.
source: wikipedia: On 10 July 1938 Hughes set another record by completing a flight around the world in just 91 hours (3 days, 19 hours), beating the previous record by more than four days. For this flight he did not fly an aircraft of his own design but a Lockheed Super Electra (a twin-engine transport with a four-man crew) fitted with all of the latest radio and navigational equipment. Hughes wanted the flight to be a triumph of technology, illustrating that safe, long-distance air travel was possible. In 1938, the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, known at the time as Houston Municipal Airport, was re-named "Howard Hughes Airport," but the name was changed back after people objected to naming the airport after a living person.
Category: The 20th Century
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