WORK AT MILDENHALL
SOME XEW ABBIVALS
MACHINES AND THEIR CREWS
TECHNICAL EXPERTS BUSY
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received October 17, 11.30 a.m.)
RUGBY, October 16,
The Royal Aero Club technical experts continued today their work of weighing and measuring the machines which have arrived at Mildenhall to compete in the race to Melbourne which begins on Saturday.
Several interesting machines entered for the air race today reached Mildenhall. They included the Fairey Fox, entered by the New Guinea Centenary Flight Syndicated which is to be piloted by Messrs. Parer and Hemsworth; two Dutch machines, the big cabined Douglas twin-engined airliner, entered by X.L.M. with Messrs. Parmentier and Moll as pilots, and the Pander 5.4, which is also a twin-engined monoplane, with Messrs. Asjes and Gey sendorfer as pilots and Pronk as mechanic and wireless operator: and the Irish Hospitals Trust entry the Bellanca monoplane, piloted by Colonel Fitzniaurice and Mr. Bonar. The Douglas airliner will carry three passengers, including Fraulein Thea Rosche, the well-known German airwoman. A new arrival at the aerodrome today also was Colonel Turner's big American Iwiir engined airliner.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 11
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181WORK AT MILDENHALL Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 11
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