SCOTT WINS AIR RACE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21903, 2 October 1936, Page 11

SCOTT WINS AIR RACE

Englaild to South Africa •three machines STILL FLYING EARLY LEADER’S CRASH (CNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) f Received October 2, 12.30 a.m.) ‘jHANNESBURG, October 1. * Messrs C. W. A. Scott and Giles Guthrie, in their Percival Vega Gull, won the 6400 miles aft- race from Portsmouth to the jgand airport at Germiston. They' landed at Abercora in Northern Rhodesia at 9.30 pan. yesterday and after resting until 4.45 a.m. to-day took off on a non-stop flight to the finish. They were flagged in at 12.36 pjn. local time. Their flying ’ tune was 52 hours 54 minutes. Scott and Llewellyn were flying nech and neck until yesterday morning, but then took different routes. The following were the starters vith their machines and handicaps; Llewellyn was well ahead of Scott when he crashed. Apparently he arrived in the neighbourhood of Abercorn yesterday evening, and cruised for an hour seeking the aerodrome, which he was unable to find because of great clouds of smoke drifting over the countryside from grass fires. Finally his petrol was finished, and he crashed at 7 p.m. at Mpulongu, at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika. He was not injured. • Waller was delayed by severe storms between Juba and Kisumu. Giles Guthrie, Scott’s companion, is the youngest competitor in the race' He is 20 years of age and a son of Sir Connop Guthrie. He is an undergraduate at Cambridge and received special permission to compete. He has flown several thousand '• miles in Britain. , Scott completed the PortsmouthJohannesburg flight in 19 hours 28 minutes less than Amy Mollison’s record-breaking flight to Cape Town. She, however, flew by' a different route. Gaptain S. Halse, chairman of the Johannesburg Light Aeroplane Club (Percival Mew Gull), scr. Major A. Miller (Percival Mew Gull), 72sec. Flight Lieutenant Tommy Rose and Mr Jack Eagshaw (8.A.4 Double Eagle), 3hr 6min. Messrs Max Findlay and Ken Waller (Airspeed Envoy), 3hr 13min. Flying Officer A. Clouston, New’ Zealand (Miles Hawk Speed Six), 6hr 25min. Mr Victor Smith (Miles Sparrow Hawk), lOhr 34min. Messrs C. W. A. Scott and Giles Guthrie (Percival Vega Gull), 13hr 14min. Flying Officer D. Llewellyn (Percival Vega Gull), 13hr 27min. Mr K. Alington and Flight Lieuten- / ant P. Booth (B.A. Eagle), 21hr 58min. On the first day Alington and Booth made a forced landing in Germany and! retired. Rose and Bagshaw were forced to retire at Cairo after damaging the under carriage of their machine when landing, Miller retired in Jugoslavia. Smith, who- was delayed in Germany by engine trouble and was reported to be out of the race, continued yesterday, but was again forced down in Greece. He intends

MR C. W. A. SCOTT ,to continue. Clouston was delayed ' it Khartoum, awaiting a spare part ■ ■ from Cairo. Halse’s Mishap ' After leading all day yesterday hy some hours Halse crashed in the evening at Bomshawo in Southern Rhodesia, only 685 miles from 1 the finishing point. He was not seriously injured, but bruises on his nead. necessitated his entering the Salisbury Hospital. Halse was also completely exhausted, and has withdrawn from the race. Halse said: “The instruments in *ny machine gave trouble for the greater part of the* day, and I was to find Salisbury. Stability ®hd visibility were, bad from the «nok;e of numerous veldt fires, , Having only five minutes of day- ’ "got, I decided to land, and selected : a suitable field, but when slowing up the machine struck an ant heap : and overturned.” , '. Halse’s arm was dislocated and it was set under an anaesthetic. He is how**sleeping. 9 th er reports srv that his tnaenme was completely smashed. .. «alse_had covered 5450 miles, Ids being approximately 35i hours r?® *ris average speed 153.5 miles an His total flyLig time was 32 f/ 3**® and his average speed for the ne was actually in the air was i; an hour, ph ; Halse arrived at Mbeya, in Rhonoon (British Summer left at 12.10 p.m. for BI i He was not feeling well, « .was expected that he might at Mpika or Broken Hill for a : was delayed at Mbeya an he anticipated by magtble. During his enforced « made every effort to rest e off the feeling of wearisickness from the bumpy s. .Later came the report teh near, Salisbury. V. A: Scott isone ofjhe most allßritishairmen. He took

both the Australia-England and Eng-land-Australia records from the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith at a time when the event was much more strenuous than it is to-day. His crowning achievement, however, was his winning of the Melbourne race two years ago, in partnership with the late Mr T. Campbell-Black, who was killed in an accident on the Speke aerodrome, Liverpool, recently.]

BRISBANEADELAIDE AIK RACE FORTY ENTRIES FOB EVENT • IN DECEMBER ADELAIDE, October 1. Forty entries have been received for the South Australian Centerary air race' from Brisbane to Adelaide in December. . The race will start at Brisbane on December 18. There will be speed and handicap sections, and in the speed section compulsory stops must be made, for refuelling at Sydney and Melbourne. .