CENTENARY RACE

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 5

CENTENARY RACE

STARTING POINT FIXED AIR FORCE LENDS ’DROME (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Received September 4, Noon). LONDON, September 3. The Air Council has sanctioned the new Air Force aerodrome at Mildenhall, as the base for the Centenary Air Race, starting on October 20. No civil aero club possesses the necessary hangar accommodation. The Royal Aero Club will be entirely responsiole for the organisation of the Mildenhall hangars which consist of two sheds, each thirty thousand feet superficies. The aerrodrome is 14,000 by 11,000 yards in area, with a run of fifteen thousand yards. The area is free from fog, the surface is unlikely to become boggy, and there are no adjacent tall obstructions. CENTENARY ENTRANT.

LOS ANGELES, September 2. George Hutchison, who several years ago attempted to fly the North Atlantic with his wife and several children, took off for New York today, en route for London, via Newfoundland, where, he said, he would enter for the Mac-Robertson Race. “TREASURE HUNT” TRAGEDY. LONDON, September 3. Two youths, John James, who was a cousin of Lord Northbourne, and Norman Ramsay, a son of Robert Ramsay, a cricketer and aviator, well known in Australia, were killed in an air crash at Adisham during a treasure hunt organised by the Kent Flying Club. While the youths were circling at a height of two hundred feet, and trying to identify the number of a car taking part in the hunt, their machine stalled. It fell into a spin, and crashed. The first aerial treasure hunt was organised by Miss Sicele O’Brien, in 1931. She was a daughter of Sir Timothy O’Brien, also a well-known cricketer. Miss O’Brien had already lost a leg in a flying accident, and later in the year she was killed in a plane crash.