World Events

Posted in 1927

  • Sir Malcolm Campbell races his car on the beach, England 1935 Captain Charles Lindberg, a 25 year old American pilot, makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. The Ryan NYP monoplane Spirit of St Louis made the 3,600 mile flight in 33 hours 39 minutes averaging a speed of 107.5 mph.
  • Malcolm Campbell breaks the world land speed record in his car Bluebird reaching a speed of 174.224 mph, in Wales.