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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Milton Reynolds and crew set unofficial record for fastest world flight at 78 hours 55 minutes in converted A-26 bomber, beating Howard Hughes' mark despite dangers and not qualifying for official status due to route.
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78 HOURS, 55 MINUTES FOR WORLD TRIP
Sixteen Hours, Nine Minutes Lost in Nine Stops
-Record Broken
NEW YORK, April 16.-(AP)-Airport crowds broke through police lines early today to welcome, with kisses and congratulations, three men whose trip around the world was the quickest ever made. Milton Reynolds, Chicago pencil manufacturer; his pilot, William Odom, and his flight engineer, T. Carroll Sallee, brought their converted A-26 bomber--the "Bombshell"--over LaGuardia Field at 12:06:30 a.m. (EST), just 78 hours and 55 minutes after their takeoff last Saturday. Their unofficial record cut 12 hours and 19 minutes from the previous unofficial record.
Reynolds admitted the trip was tiring, sometimes dangerous, and "I would not make the trip again for $100,000,000." But he added jubilantly to reporters:
"We made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic ever made, in five hours and 17 minutes; we also made a record trip to Paris and Gander (Newfoundland) and maybe some other records."
The previous unofficial round-the-world flight record, 51 hours and 14 minutes, was set in 1943 by Howard Hughes, who wired Reynolds, "my heartiest congratulations for your excellent performance." Hughes and his four crew members had taken their monoplane around a route, shorter by some 5,200 miles.
"The Bombshell" averaged about 254 miles an hour on its 20,020-mile flight. Taking into account 16 hours and nine minutes lost in its nine stops, the big plane averaged about 318 miles an hour while in actual flight.
Reynolds told reporters that the last leg of the flight, from Edmonton, was the "toughest part" and he "was worried sick" when they flew through ice and fog between Minneapolis and Detroit.
Prior to the flight, Charles Logsdon, executive secretary of the National Aeronautic Association Contest Board, announced in Washington that the flight would not be an official record because the route did not include points specified by the Federation Aeronautique International. No flight on the official route has been made, he said.
Plane Makes World Flight
This is the converted A-26 bomber which Milton Reynolds used in his round-the-world flight. Reynolds was navigator and had a two-man crew.
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Milton Reynolds, with pilot William Odom and engineer T. Carroll Sallee, completed the quickest unofficial world flight in 78 hours and 55 minutes using a converted A-26 bomber called the Bombshell, breaking the previous record set by Howard Hughes.