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...Greece. 5. New Mexico. 3. Guatemala. 81. Flyer Bill Odom set a new record by circling the globe solo in an hour and five minutes more than...
Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...
...Tokyo (13,345 miles), Odom snatched a few minutes' sleep on one of the Bombshell's wings. At Anchorage (16,745 miles), a mechanic caught him napping, standing up. There he pinned his cherished piece of Winnie Mae's covering to a wreath and left it as a memorial to his boyhood hero, Wiley Post...
...Odom got home at 1:58 p.m. Sunday. He had flown 19,645 miles (4,049 miles farther than Post) in 73 hours 5 minutes (113 hours, 44 minutes less than Post). His time was also five hours 50 minutes faster than the previous round-the-world speed record, which he had set in April in the same plane, over virtually the same course, accompanied by a flight engineer and Penmaker Reynolds...
...Pilot Odom looked fine. Said he: "The good Lord was taking care of me last night. That business scared me so much I haven't felt sleepy since...