SPEED HEROES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 November 1927, Page 5

SPEED HEROES.

SEGR AYE’S EXPERIENCES AS A PILOT. BY CABLE—TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 5. Segrave and Webster, the World’s speed 'heroes, met as guests at ,a_ Oiv.il Service Motoring Association dinnerThey recognised each other at a glance and exchanged cheery greetings and mutual congratulations, oil their performances. Afterwards the diners sang “For They are Jolly Good Fellows.” Segrave. responding to a toast, said: “As a pilot myself during tne war, 1 admire' every good pilot. Webster is the best the Air Force has produced, and I am the worst I. had a machine which was a rtiastly affair. The engine was behind the pilot, who was stuck out in front. I landed ,in an undigmfied manner ab the first effort. Then in another machine I ',nnded twenty feet up and foil like a stone. I .set off a third time with instructions not to risk landing at Dover, but to go straight on to France. The propeller blade' dropped off rtx mules from the Channel, tor which reason I chose dropping into the sea in preference to gliding over the cliff.” Webster said: ‘‘Sea,grave s record m motoring -eclipses mine tin flying because he has tenfold worse elements to contend with.”