AUSTRALIAN WINS £200
RECORD TIME FOR CONTEST
A FATAL CRASH
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(Received September 11; 9.40 a.m.)
LONDON, September 10.
The Australian, Captain Percival, won £200 for the fastest time in the higher-powered class at the conclusion of the first day's flight. Captain Percival's speed was 225.2 miles an hour, a record for the oontest.
Some of the aeroplanes Were badly buffeted.
The eighteen leaders in the race fly on the final stage to London via Carlisle and Bristol tomorrow.
| Wing-Commander E. G. Hilton, flying a Miles Falcon, and accompanied by Wing-Commander Percy Sherran, crashed at Scarborough on the first stage to Newcastle. Both were killed.
An eye-witness of the crash says thar a squall caught Wing-Commander Hilton's aeroplane, lifted it up 50 feet, and whirled it round. Spectators were horror-stricken when a man was thrown through the roof of the cockpit, somersaulted in the air, and fe1! on the roof of a disused cafe. The other occupant's decapitated body was found shattered in the cockpit.
The accident was witnessed by soms ol the members oi the New Zealand cricket team.
Five other competitors In the race made forced landings.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 9
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