THE GREAT AIR RACE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 7

THE GREAT AIR RACE

MILDENHALL TO MELBOURNE

SCOTT AND BLACK STILL IN LEAD

LAST STAGE ACROSS AUSTRALIA

DUTCH AND AMERICANS NEXT

The third day of the great air race from Mildenhall (England) to Melbourne (Australia) for the Macßobertson Trophy given in connection with the Victorian Centenary celebrations finds the leaders, Scott and Black, in their D.H. Comet, actually in Australia and more than half-way at 1 o'clock, New Zealand lime, across the continent to Melbourne, their arrival having been announced at Charleville, Queensland, 787 miles from Melbourne, at 8.42 a.m. Australian time. This is a magnificent performance. Some hours behind Scott and Black flies the majestic Dutch Douglas airliner, piloted by Parmentier and Moll, and carrying three passengers. Tt is reported lo have reached Darwin this morning. Running third, and desperately endeavouring to catch up. are the Americans, Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn, in their Boeing Transport. They have left Singapore for Darwin. No other fivers are as yet reported to have passed Allahabad. India, behind which they are strung out all the way back to Home. The record of comparative freedom in this race from serious mishap to pilots has been broken unfortunately by the tragicdeaths of Baines and Gilman, the first an Englishman who learned to fly in New Zealand and the second a New Zealandcr born and a popular officer in the Royal Air Force in England. They met disaster in the Apennines in Southern Italy. Their machine crashed and took fire, and both were burnt to death.