Ste hid, yg FYI hee Swilt Jetliner Spans bebe Oo Continent In Three Hours, 39 Minutes United Press Six minutes from a mark that TWA International Jet airlines, helped along by set Saturday. tail winds of up to 120 miles per hour set four eastbound transcontinental speed records yesterday. Vice President Richard M. Nixon | was aboard an American Airlines | Boeing 707 that raced 2,300 miles from Los Angeles to WashingtonBaltimore Friendship Airport in three hours 39 minutes: Nixon’s flight with , a capacity load of 112 passengers broke a previous American four hours flat Airlines mark of for the run. | Another American 707 jet set a Los Angeles-Boston record of four hours, 24 passengers minutes, carrying 114 and a:crew of eight. The plane made the 2,790-mile flight at an average speed of 635 miles per hour, eclipsing a one-day-old record also of four hours, 39 minutes held by American. A Trans World Airlines 707 carrying 114 passengers averaged 600 miles an hour for a 2,451-mile Los Angeles-New hours, York 57° minutes run. The three flight trimmed An Eastern Airlines Douglas DOSBFFlew 2,339 miles from Long Beach, Calif., to Miami in three: hours, 58 minutes and 55 seconds, an average speed of 584 miles an ‘hour, which Eastern said was a record for the southern transcon- tinental route. ti