Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy's Los Angeles) flew from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, approximately 1,500 mi. farther, in 81 hr...
...ripped her tail, the British dirigible R-100 last week completed, twelve hours later than expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...
Born. To Herbert von Thaden, airplane manufacturer, and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden, noted aviatrix; a son. Last year Mrs. Thaden won the women's air derby from Santa Monica, Calif, to Cleveland, Ohio in 21 hr. 29 min. flying time; once held a women's endurance record of 22 hr. subsequently bettered by the late Marvel Crosson...
...beyond the district and his running had improved. Nobody laughed when he asked for timekeepers in an attempt to break a world's record. Starting one hot July morning in 1923 from the Agricultural Show Grounds in Durban he broke the world's record for 50 mi. in 5 hr. 53 min. 5 sec. As soon as he had finished and found people gathered around him he began to talk about that matter of the Kaffirs...
Arthur Newton ran 20 miles a day to keep training. He wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo...