FINISH OF ADELAIDE AIR RACE
VICTORIAN AND QUEENSLAND PILOTS SUCCEED (Received December 19, 12.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, December 18. The Victorian pilot, C. D. Pratt, who conducts a flying school at Geelong, won the handicap section of the centenary air race to-day. The final stage from Melbourne to Adelaide was completed to-day in bad conditions, fog and mist causing several competitors to make forced landings on the way. The speed section was won by the Queensland Pilot J. W. Collins, who flew a Percival Vega Guil machine from scratch. Pratt flew a Klemm Eagle, the property of a New South Wales grazier. . A Victorian, A. R. Ansett, finished second in the handicap section with a Forterfield machine. A Queensland man, P. Moody, flying a Stinson Reliant, war runner-up in the speed event in which C. D. Pratt was third. »
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21970, 19 December 1936, Page 15
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