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Memo. Report No. 69   PAGE 4.
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RECORDS CARRYING USEFUL LOAD:

Duration: 1500Kg. Present Holder.   
Useful load carried-1500kg. (3,306.9 lbs.)
Capt. C.T.R.Hill at Cricklewood, England, June 4, 1920 in a Handley-Page W-8 with two 450 hp. Napier Lions, 1 hr. 20'.

Distance:
No record

Altitude: 25 Kg. Previous Holders.
Useful load carried-250 kg. (551.1 lbs)
Jean LeBoucher at Bourget, France on July 6, 1921 in a Breguet with 280 hp. Renault fitted with a Rateau, 6,782 meters or 22,251.7 ft.

J. Casale in a Spad 56, on Feb. 11, 1923, 7200 meters or 23,616 ft.

J. Le Boucher, 7684.45 meters or 25,200 ft. Time, plane and place unknown.

Present Official Holder
J. Casale at Buc Aerodrome, France on March 20, 1923, in a Spad 56 with Jupiter engine, 8200 meters or 26,900 ft.

Altitude: 500 Kg. Previous Holders.

Useful load carried-500 kg. (1102.31 lbs.)
J Casale at Buc Aerodrome, France on Feb. 12, 1923, 4791 meters or 15,714.48 ft.

Lt. Andre on March 2, 1923, in a Breguet 17C-2, 5600 meters or 18,368 ft.

Present Official Holder
Thierry at Madrid, Spain on March 12, 1923 in a Breguet 19 A-2, 5992 meters or 19,653.76 ft.

Altitude: 1500 Kg. Present Official Holder

Useful load carried-1500 kg. (3,306.9 lbs.)
Capt. C.T.R.Hill at Cricklewood, England on May 4, 1920, in a Handley-Page W-8 with two 450 hp. Napier Lions, 4267 meters or 14,000 ft.

Note. 1. Record carrying useful load of 1000 kg. (weight carried, 2242 lbs., to be exact) was made by Lt. Rutledge Irvine on Apr. 17, 1923 in a Douglass DT-2 to an altitude of 11,300 ft. Made at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. Lt. Irvine-U.S.N.

GLIDER RECORDS.

Duration:
Previous Holders.
L. Bossontrot at Bolougne, France in a Farman glider on Jan. 25, 1923, 3 hrs. 31'.

Lt. Thoret in a Harriet HD-14 plane at Biskra, Algeria, 7 hrs. 3'.

Present Official Holder

A. Maneyrol at Vauville, France in a Peyret monoplane glider, 8 hrs. 4'.