AFTER RECORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 215, 11 September 1931, Page 7

AFTER RECORDS.

BRITISH ATTEMPTS.

Plans for Schneider Trophy

Event.

LONE COMPETITOR.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 10.

In the absence of the French and Italian * teams from the Schneider Trophy race,- the procedure to be followed on Saturday will be that one of the two S6B Vickers Supermarine Bolls-Royce seaplanes, which were specially designed for the contest, will fly. the course over the Solent and attempt, to beat the 100 kilometres world's speed record, and also try to establish a,' fresh record for the Schneider Trophy contest.

Should this prove unsuccessful, an attempt will be made in seaplane S6A, which, flew in the 1929 contest, followed by an S6B.

The Royal Aero Club has been notified that the following pilots of the Royal :Air Force' High ,\ Spfeed Flight .have been provisionally detailed to, fly in the contest oh Saturday:—Fljght-Lieutenant J. N'.' Boothman, in tlie SOB Vickers Supermarine : Rolls-R6yce seaplaiie; FlyingOfficer L. S. Snaith, in the S6A which flew in the 1929 contest; Flight-Lieuten-ant F. W. Long, in another S6B.

Flight-Lieutenant G. H. Stainrorth has been selected to fly the S6B seaplane which will attempt to beat the world's record speed over a 100 kilometres course at the earliest possible date.

The club further announces that in the event of the first machine's winning the trophy at a speed which beats the existing record, a demonstration of high-speed flying in the other aircraft ma ytake place. .., Orie'of the S6B machines which is now fitted with a. racing engine was taken up for a final test flight yesterday. Among the spectators, was Mr. Anthony Fokker, the Dutch aeroplane manufacturer.. . NEW ZEPPELIN. Huge Airship Being Built in Germany. METAL FROM RlOl WRECK. , (Received 10 a.m.) - BERLIN, September 10. Germany's new. Zeppelin, the LZI29, is rapidly nearing completion at Friedrichshafen. It is twice the size of the Graf Zeppelin and is of a new type, having Diesel engines. -It will be 806 feet long and will use helium gas. Metal from the wreck of the RlOl forms a large part of the ribs of the airship. The passengers' accommodation includes a large smoking-room and 50 single-berth cabins.

The Graf Zeppelin, which was built in 1927, is 776 ft longfi and.has a volume of 3,700,<X)Q cubic feet,';The< ill-fated RlOl was 777 ft in length, and her cubic capacity was 5;500,000ft. The present largest airship in the world is the new American vessel/ Akron, launched a month ago in Ohio. She is 785 ft in length, and has 6,500,000 cubic feet capacity. While the Graf Zeppelin has a diameter of only 100 ft, the RlOl ancf the Akron both had 132. The passenger accommodation of the LZI27, as the Graf Zeppelin is officially designated, is about 20, while the wrecked British airship took up 79 on her test flight. The ; Akron's maximum speed is 84 m.p.h., .and that of the Zeppelin 80, while the cruising radius of the American ship is 10,500 miles to the 6125 of the German vessel. FIGHTING AIRCRAFT. British -'Planes'-30 m.p.h. Faster Than American. SPEED PILOT'S OPINION.

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

MONTREAL, September 10.

Britain's fighting aircraft are upwards of,.3o;miles an hour faster -than the equivalent machines produced for the, United States, Army, in the opinion .of Flight-Lieutenant Atcherley, the British air ace, who is returning to England from Cleveland, U.S.A. ■ GLIDER FOR £9. NEW GERMAN 'PLANE. (Keceived 10 a.m.) BERLIN, September 10. A glider, costing £9 with a wing-span of ,16 feet has been invented by Hans Richteiy a pioneer of gliding. The takeoff is achieved by picking up the machine and running as hard as possible against, the, wind. r MISS JOHNSON'S PLANS. ITRANS-ATLANTIC HOP NEXT?

TOKYO, September 10.

Since she left Tokyo on August 24, Miss Amy Johnson, who reached England yesterday, encountered much bad weather. Her flight from England to Tokyo in a Puss Moth aeroplane was accomplished in just over nine days.

Miss Johnson is contemplating a transAtlantic flight if she is able to arrange finance.