FLIGHT ROUND ENGLAND.
TEST FOH. WAT__P__K_S. ONLY TWO COMPETITORS. (Received 0.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Owing to Mr S. !•'. Cody's death and Radley's retirement, there are only two competitors for the '-Daily Mail's"' sea plane flight round Britain. The prize of £5,000 is to determine whether a Britishmade engine is equal to the task. Pickles, of yielbourne, on a Sopwith biplane, accompanied by Kauper, an Australian mechanic, left Southampton and reached Yarmouth in four and a-half hours, an average of a mile a minute. McLean, his rival, is using a biplane of ]00-horse power, with Green fixed cylindrical engines. The course starts at Netley, near Southampton, and covers a distance of 1,600 miles, which must be completed within 72 hours, not including compulsory halts of half-an-hour each at Ramspate, Yarmouth, Scarborough. Aberdeen. £romarty, Oban, Dublin, and Falmouth.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 196, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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