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Pen Manufacturer Plots
Round-the-World Hop
- 'NEW 'YORK, March 30.
Pen manufacturer Milton Reynolds
plans to attempt a record 55-hour,
20,000-mile round-the-world flight
beginning here at 12:01 a. m. CEST)
Saturday, April 5, 'a representative
said.
The spokesman, Franklin Lamb,
said Reynolds'' aim would be virtually
to halve the 1938 global recjord
set by Howard Hughes of 91
hours, 14 minutes. A pilot and
flight engineer will handle the
plane, with "Reynolds occasionally
helping at the controls.
At a news conference Lamb .said
the record try would be made in
a remodeled two-engined, high
wing Douglas A-26 monoplane purchased
at Los Angeles from government
surplus 'equipment.
Lamb said that because of a Russian
rejection of the plan to fly
the 'short route" over Soviet territory-
as "inadvisable," the plane
would have to cover 6,000 miles
more than Hughes' ship.
Stops are planned at Paris, Cairo
Calcutta, Shanghai,'Tokyo and Anchorage,
Alaska.