The Annual Register of World Events, Volume 200Ivison Stevenson Macadam Longmans, Green and Company, 1959 - History |
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Page 384
... record of 6 hours 28 minutes for the crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger - carrying civil aircraft . In September the Boeing 707 jet airliner broke the record for the east - west crossing in 72 hours . An R.A.F. Vulcan ...
... record of 6 hours 28 minutes for the crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger - carrying civil aircraft . In September the Boeing 707 jet airliner broke the record for the east - west crossing in 72 hours . An R.A.F. Vulcan ...
Page 386
... records by the Comet and Boeing aircraft have already been mentioned . The altitude record for aircraft established at 70,000 ft . in 1957 by a British Canberra was broken on 2 May by a French Trident ( approximately 80,000 ft . ) and ...
... records by the Comet and Boeing aircraft have already been mentioned . The altitude record for aircraft established at 70,000 ft . in 1957 by a British Canberra was broken on 2 May by a French Trident ( approximately 80,000 ft . ) and ...
Page 422
... record price of £ 20,500 . Record prices were also obtained in several other categories . When the Skippe collection of old - master drawings was sold a splendid pair of studies of Christ at the Column by Giovanni Bellini fetched 15,000 ...
... record price of £ 20,500 . Record prices were also obtained in several other categories . When the Skippe collection of old - master drawings was sold a splendid pair of studies of Christ at the Column by Giovanni Bellini fetched 15,000 ...
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HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM | 1 |
EASTER TO MIDSUMMER | 17 |
SCOTLAND 61 WALES 63 NORTHERN IRELAND 65 | 65 |
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