AVIATION AWARDS.
YEAR’S OUTSTANDING FEATS. SCOTT STANDS PREDOMINANT. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) MADRID, March 10. The International League of Aviators, meeting at Barcelona, voted that C. W. A. Scott (winner of the Melbourne Centenary air race) with Campbell Black, achieved the most meritorious record in 1934, This carries the international trophy, also King Albert’s gold medal. Similar awards were made to Commander Ernest Lehmann, the German dirigible pilot, Madame Piccard, the Belgian balloon pilot, and the late Mdlle. Helene Boucher, the French; airwoman, who last August, established a women’s speed record of 278 miles per hour. She also held the altitude record. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 127, 11 March 1935, Page 5
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