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Howard Hughes: The Aviator - A New Record

Time: Tuesday Jan 19, 1937

Place: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Details: A year and a half later, on January 19, 1937, flying the same H-1 Racer fitted with longer wings, Hughes set a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to Newark in seven hours, 28 minutes, and 25 seconds (beating his own previous record of nine hours and 27 minutes). His average ground speed over the flight was 322 mph.

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