SPEED IN THE AIR
BRITAIN SEEKING RECORD
AVIATOR NOW IN TRAINING
LONDON, .July* 25. *■ Flight-Lieutenant d’Arcy Greig is training for an attack on the world’s speed record. This he will make shortly at Cal shot with a, SupermarineNapier So, which is expected to attain a speed of 340 miles an hour. It is recognised that the SupermarineNapiers and also GJoster machines, which were designed to defejid Britain’s title in the Schneider Cup race, must have a top-speed of 3SO miles an hour. The world’s speed record .is 318.62 miles an hour made by the Italian, Major di Bernardi, on March 30 of this year.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 August 1928, Page 11
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104SPEED IN THE AIR Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 August 1928, Page 11
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