AUSTRALIAN AIR RACE
THE WIHNERB ANHOUNCED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ADELAIDE, December 18. A Victorian pilot, C. D. Pratt, who conducts a flying school at Geelong, to-day won., the, handicap section of the Centenary. Air -Race. The final stage from Melbourne to ;Adelaide via Nhill, wai completed to-day in bad conditions, fog and mist causing several competitors to make forced landings en route. - The speed : section was won by a Queenslander, J. W. Collins, off scratch.. He flew a Percival Vega Gull machine, while- Pratt’ flew a. Klemm Eagle, the property of a New South Wales grazier. A Victorian, A. R. Ansett, finished second in the handicap with a Porterfield machine. ' A Queenslander, P. Moody, flying’ a Stinson Reliant, was runner-up in the speed event, and C. D. Pratt was third.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 17
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131AUSTRALIAN AIR RACE Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 17
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