SCHNEIDER CUP RACE
British Flying Team Chosen (Rec. March IS, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 18. The Schneider Cup team will consist of the following: Squadron-Leader Ortebar (commander); Flight-Lieuten-ants G. H. Stainforth, F. M. Long, J. M. Boothman and J. It. Addams; Fly-ing-Officer Leech. Squadron-Leader Orlebar, one of the most daring of Britain’s Royal Air Force racing airmen, secured the world flying speed record when he piloted his machine over a course of three kilometres at 355.8 miles an hour. On September 13, 1929, he made another attempt to break his own record. He brilliantly completed six laps, and it was later announced at Calshot that he reached a mean speed of 357.7 miles per hour. Flight-Lieutenant G. IL Stainforth was a member of the High Speed Section in 1920, but did not fly in the Cup race. He has the reputation of having put the highest load in a turn yet placed on a racing seaplane—that of seven times the normal load.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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162SCHNEIDER CUP RACE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 9
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