SEGRAVE TROPHY AWARDED
AIR SPEED RECORD (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. John E. Douglas Derry won the 1948 Segrave Trophy for making a 100kilometre closed circuit aeroplane record at Hatfield on April 4, 1948. He flew a De Havilland type 108 aircraft at 605.230 miles an hour. The trophy is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of po&ibilities of transport by land, air or water. Derry will also receive the Sold medal of the Royal Aero Club as le first British subject to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 7
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