MELBOURNE AIR RACE

Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 9

MELBOURNE AIR RACE

FREAK MACHINES. UNDESIRABLE REPLY TO AMERICAN CRITICISM. Press Associatioc—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 15. Referring to the American controversy with regard to the eligibility of certain types of American aeroplanes which desire to enter the centenary race, Sir Macpherson Robertson, who provided the prize money, said: “1 cannot understand what all the talk is about. I make no pretensions to having any aeronautical knowledge, but 1 do know there is no intention of exercising discrimination against Americans, but 1 have not the slightest hesitation in stating that the committee controlling the event shares my view that no advantage would accrue to aviation by the participation of freakish machines. Our desire is to make tbo race truly international, but we must insist that tho pilots and machines have the qualifications laid down by the regulations.”