World Trip in 99 hr

"Fabulous" was the description Mr. Horace Boren, of Texas, applied to the B.O.A.C. Comet trip which enabled him to set a new "passenger record" by flying round the world in 99 hr 16 min. After crossing the Atlantic from New York, Mr. Boren flew from London to Tokyo by B.O.A.C. Comet and thence back to New York by North-west Airlines Stratocruiser, arriving on June 25th.

Source: Flight International