MACHINES IN AIR RACE
DECISION OF EXPERTS
CUTS. IN FUEL AND RANGE
RAIN AT IYIILDENHALL
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 18, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 17. The only French entry in the Eng-land-Melbourne air race, a Bleriot machine, had to be scratched today as it was badly damaged when landing at La Bourget this morning on its way to Mildenhall, Suffolk. Today's conditions of rain and mist prevented the pilots of the twenty aeroplanes assembled at Mildenhall from making practice flights. In the interests of safety the race rules provide that machines must conform substantially with the International Convention in Aerial Navigation, and technical experts, examining the machines, decided that several were carrying excessive weight. In these cases the fuel carried will have to be reduced, with a consequent reduction of range.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 13
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