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...except for refueling, when they throttled back to less than 600 m.p.h. and dropped to 30,000 ft. to rendezvous with waiting tankers. By the time the racers had braked to a stop in Brooklyn, drag parachutes billowing behind, three had cracked the old transcontinental record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec. set in 1957 by Air Force Lieut. Gustav Klatt in an RF-101 Voodoo jet. The winning time, posted by Lieut. Richard Gordon Jr. and Lieut, (j.g.) Bobbie Young: 2 hr. 47 min. In New Jersey and New York, angry householders complained that the sonic booms from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Noisy Record | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...airmen hung up another speed record last week when an Air Force four-jet B58 Hustler bomber reached Paris exactly 3 hr. 19 min. 41 sec. after passing over Roosevelt Field, L.I. (now a shopping center), where Charles Augustus Lindbergh started his famed solo transatlantic flight 34 years ago. The Hustler's speed (average: 1,050 m.p.h.) was nearly ten times as fast as Lindbergh's, who covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two More Records | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Auto tire 9¾ hr. 6½ hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: What Good Old Days? | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Sewing machine 92½ hr. 51 hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: What Good Old Days? | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...dungarees 1½ hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: What Good Old Days? | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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