GLIDING RECORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 184, 6 August 1934, Page 7

GLIDING RECORDS.

95 MILES IN 3| HOURS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 5. Mr. G. Collins achieved a record gliding flight of 95 miles, a height of 4000 feet, and a duration of 3 J hours at Dunstable, Holkham Bay. He twice looped the loop before landing on the beach. Mr. P. Wills, at a national gliding meeting at Sutton Bank, attained a record altitude of 5100 feet above his starting point.

AIR RACE RISKS.

FLYING WITHOUT PERMITS

LONDON, August 2,

Although Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey have refused general permission for the air race competitors to fly over their territory, they explain they are most interested in the race and can assist more satisfactorily by requiring individual permits.

Greece similarly requires individual permits from competitors whose countries are not affiliated with the International Convention for Air Navigation. Other countries en route have granted general permission to fly over them, subject to various conditions.

However, many competitors intend flying high over the Great Circle course, which passes over these countries, disregarding the countries' rulings, and will thereby risk disqualification according to the race rules, which, however, it is understood, will be inoperative unless opponents protest. Such competitors also risk a forced landing in prohibited territory, which probably will be fatal to success.

Supplementary regulations announce that the International Federation of Aeronautics' rule, over-riding race rules, permits protests within eight days of the judge's announcement, instead of 12 hours. The race will start from either Hatfield or Gravesend.