KING’S AIR CUP.
A CLOSE FINISH
WINNERS’ GREAT EFFORT
(British Official Wireless). RUGBY, July 22. T!.:e King, te-egraphed congratulations to winner of the King’s Air Cup. Hope’s flying time for 1096 mile® round Britain was 1/0 hours 24 minutes 4 seconds, an average speed ol 105| miles per hour. He was third at the. end of the first day, but he made a great effort in yesterday’s stage of 556 miles, which lie cvered at over 113 miles per hour. There was a very clou? finish, for j-ust over two miiiutes after Hope had completed the journey, Unwin® flashed' oyer the line, and 20 seconds later Miss Spooner, the only lady pilot in the contest, amrived. Mis® Spooner wins the Siddetey trophy, consisting of a c'lval’enge cup and £l5O, which was offered for empetition • among the fight aeroplane clubs. She might have won the race but for lie's take. From Renfrew to within >, few miles of London she led. but then •he lost ten minutes 'by following the wrong railway line.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 5
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171KING’S AIR CUP. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 5
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