PLANS FOR COMING RACE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 20

PLANS FOR COMING RACE

Foreign teams visiting England, in order to take part in the Schneider Trophy contest' next September will be given accommodation at Calshot Seaplane Station, at the entrance to

Southampton Water, writes the aviation correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." Here the. British team is already at work, but about the beginning of August, the flying-boat squadrons permanently stationed at Calshot will cruise round the, coast to Leuchars, in Scotland, there to undergo certain exercises in co-operation with units stationed at Leuehars. Their doparture will make room at Calshot for the visitors. ...

Calshot Seaplane Station will then be almost entirely given over to Schneider Trophy preparations, and since these will arouse great interest all over the world, tho Post Office has decided to set up a special office on the spot to enable the numerous newspaper correspondents who will assemble there to dispatch messages with a minimum of inconvenience. It is expected that nearly 200 Press representatives from all over the world will attend.

Each visiting team will contain at least thirty men, including pilots and mechanics, and with Italy, France, and possibly tho United States represented. Calshot during the two or three weeks

beforo the race will be a scene of great activity. Royal Air Forco officers with languago qualifications will bo attached to the teams as liaison officers and interpreters. ; . ....■.:■.

On the day before tho speed race competing machines will go through navigability and watertightness tests off the Islo of Wight, and on that day interest will be transferred to the course over which tho race will be flown, to Osborno Bay, in which tho preliminary tests will bo held, and to Ryde, off which will be tho starting and finishing lino.

In addition to the Schneider Trophy contest, thero will be others of great interest at tho time. Portsmouth Navy Week will bo held, and for the iirs't timo tho public will be permitted to visit British aircraft-carriers. Several Royal Aoro Club sub-com-mittees aro engaged on business in connection with tho race. Ono of the most important, and one on which a big responsibility will lie, will havo to decide whether the raco shall'take place'or be postponed. Such postponements are only permissible on account of unsuitable weather, and only from day to day bpeeial knowledge of local conditions sate for racing craft which "land" at 100 miles per hour is necossarv, and neither the local sailor, the land aeroplane expert, nor- the Admiral of the port js qualified. ■ ■ "