FIGHT FOR LIFE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 July 1928, Page 7

FIGHT FOR LIFE

IN KING’S CUP AIR RACE. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS MET TWELVE MACHINES CRASH. ••in-d Pi-pan Association —Ey Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). LONDON, July 22. Twelve machines crashed in the King’s Cup race. Only one person was injured, a passenger in It. Whitehead’s machine, which was forced to land and overturned near Bury St. Edmunds. Pilots agreed that the conditions were deplorable. It was a battle for life ifoin Newcastle, through mist-shroucled mountains. Miss Spooner clashed into a peak when an upward current shot her fifty feet, throwing her from her seat. Two machines collided at Nottingham aerodrome, and another taxied into a motor-car at the start.

FINISH OF THE RACE. HOPE WINS IN MOTH PLANE. MISS SPOONER FINISHES THIRD. LONDON, Julv 22. The -race.. resulted in a win for last year’s holder, W. Hope. Details are: \V. Hope, De Haviland Moth (lhr oominMOsec start) .1 C. Unwin, Bristol Fighter (34mm - 41sec) - Miss Spooner, Moth 3 Captain Broad, De Haviland Moth 4 The winner averaged 105-J miles an hour for the full distance of 1097 miles. Summerson’s Avro Avenger secured the fastest time. Miss Spooner won the trophy for members of light plane clubs. LEADERS AT EJND OF FIRST DAY. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, July 20. The King’s Cup air race round Britain was commenced to-day. The leading machines at the end of the first day at Renfrew were:—• Flight Officer Atcherlev (Gloster Grebe), forty minutes fifty-six ‘seconds start', arrived at five hours nineteen minutes twenty-seven seconds p.m. Captain Broad (De Haviland H Moth), ninety-four minutes thirty-five seconds start, arrived five hours twenty minutes fifty-three seconds'. W. Hope, the holder (De Haviland -Moth), one hour fifty-five minutes forty seconds start, five hours twenty-seven minutes nineteen seconds. C Unwin (Bristol machine), thirtyfour minutes forty-one seconds start, five hours thirty-four minutes twelve seconds.