CROSS-COUNTRY AIR RACE
VICTORY TO PUSS MOTH ROYAL AIR. FORCE FATALITY .'l’nit.f-d pro.. —By Electric Tclcarapb Onpvrisrht.l LONDON, May 22. The “Morning Post’s” cross-country air race from Heston to Norwich and back. 500 miles, was won by F 1C Walker in a Puss Moth averaging IOS.o miles an hour. Lieut. Grierson in a flipsv Moth was second, and Miss Winifred Sroooner in a Puss Moth fourth. Lieut. Frank George Gibbons, of the Royal Air Force, crashed on the top of an oak tree and was killed.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 23 May 1932, Page 5
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86CROSS-COUNTRY AIR RACE Hawera Star, Volume LI, 23 May 1932, Page 5
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