AROUND EUROPE
LIGHT PLANE CONTEST NO DECISION YET (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy right, RUGBY, August 15. (Received August 16, at 11 a.m.) The result has not yet been declared of the international light aeroplane around-Europe flight, as time is required to work out its details. Marks are being awarded not only lor speed, but for design, comfort, reliability, and many other factors. Nevertheless, it is probable that the British aeroplanes in the race flown by Captain Broad and Miss Spooner will be placed either first and second or very near the top of the list.
Broad flew a de Haviland and Gipsy Moth machine, with a 100 horse-power engine, privately entered by the De Haviland Aircraft Company, and Miss Spooner flew her own machine, Avhich is also a Moth, The total distance of the course was about 4,000 miles, and was over every kind of country. Captain Broad and Miss Spooner describe their flight as entirely uneventful, and but for the time-table arranged they would have been back in Pans two or three days before the hour fixed for the arrival of competitors. Yesterday afternoon twenty-live of the entrants reached Paris, and they all expressed special admiration, for the feat of the British airwoman.
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Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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206AROUND EUROPE Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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