THE BIG AIR RACE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 7

THE BIG AIR RACE

CHIEF BRITISH MACHINE

WRECKED

HINCKLEE FAILS TO QUALIFY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPTIUGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAIi.NKW ZEALAND CAULE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 24th October.

A Baltimore .message stales that Britain's .so-called "mystery sea-; plane," the Supermarinc Napier 54,: was completely wrecked. A series of. wing'flutters .anil side slips, during the .preliminary navigability ■ trial in connection with the Jacques-Schneider ■lntoni;itioii:il Sea.piane trophy, led to a noso dive into Chesepeake Bay, after whicli the machine turned over, fl'liu ; pilot, Captain Henry Baird, wearing a lifebelt, cleared the wreckage, as it sank. A brother pilot, Captain .Hubert Broad, tossed a second lifebelt from his machine, after which a patrol boat rescued Captain Baird, who was dazed and unable to explain the occurrence. Captain Baird is in bod, and the doctors fear that he has pneumonia, lie had been ill for several days, and only left his bed daily to fly for a few minutes.

VANCOUVEB, 24th October. A message, from Baltimore states that Bert Kinkier, of Melbourne, the reserve pilot or! the British Schneider Cup team, was given n. chance to take his Gloster-Napier seaplane into the uitornntionul race to-day. When five opposing: American and Italian pilots signed :i. petition asking- thai; he .should lie all;r,ved In f|iialif\- liei'orc. the raoe, 1 In- i-cl'ercc a.<;rei-d. \ f Il'inkler qualilied, his mai-hine would I.c tin' sulistiiute for Captain Baird's.

JliiiUlcr, however, failed to qualify on Saturday owing to his oiigin'u ,-iallin^. 'I'll is jiiih! r.ii en rile iiririsli plan In secure fi sulistitutu for the crashed niaehine.

Bad weather made it- neeessarv lo postpone the Cup I'.'tc.c, which 'willIn Mown „,n Monday, if i| is Jii.,ftiimigli.