ce : : MM my 5. 81) Hours: eet wa Tokyo to London today in a record time of 8 hours and 35 . Air flew from Ore st (AP)—An bomber ¢ minutes, averaging 938 miles an howe" Arn WASHINGTON Force B58 ; ‘\ident Kennedy, covered 8,028 i The flight, announced by Presmiles nonstop with five refuelea ings in the air. VE congratulate the Air Forte MEE, crew which flew this operation, on the ground,’ Kennedy said : ho and c some. The old time was 17 hours bel cD. competence ee dedication of all involved.” The bomber and its crew of three cut the previous TokyoLondon record in half and then land 42 minutes, set in 1955 by = Ss SS tO ito the high 4m ¢ jin a statement. “I know that the success of this flight is due Ss J f§ i and the men who supported it a British Canberra jet. CLEARED TOKYO * Pe Kennedy said the B58 cleared E the Tokyo starting point at} o 12:59 a.m. Washington PY time's and crossed the finish point over |. . |London at 9:34 a.m. Washing- 1 ton time. — The flight was at an altitude lvarying from 47,000 to 57,000 feet. The refueling was done be-|low 30,000 feet over Shemya in -\the Aleutian islands; Ejielson, _|Alaska;. Thule, Greenland, Ke-| flavik, ‘Teeland, and Prestwi KI Scotland. The B58 is from Bunker Air Force Strategic Air \planned 4 Se Base in Hilf} Indiand} Command head Hs as an operational ef sustained supersonic. jov er the arctic region. test