KING’S CUP AIR RACE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 5

KING’S CUP AIR RACE

Over 30 Entries So Far Received for September Event EXPERIMENTAL MACHINES MANY CAPABLE 200 M.P.H. (British Official 'Wireless.) Received 2.15 p.in.'to-day. RUGBY,. Aug. 23. For the King’s Cup air race, to be flown this year on September 6 and-7, over 30 entries have - been received, including one from tlie Duke of Kent. As a compromise between the earlier “round Britain” course and the recent “ there and -back” laps, the organisers have planned an elimination course on the first day and on the second day a flight for the surviving maichines over a number of laps of circuit of not.less than. 50 miles in length, up to a total distance of 350 miles. .- Several of the machines entered aro capable of speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour, including a Percival Mew Gull owned by' the Duke of Kent, and a Comet monoplane, a similar craft to that which* won the England-Aus'. tralia. race. Machines Which will be seen by the public for the first time in a race are an experimental De Havi* land D.H. 90-cabin biplane, powered with two Gipsy Major 130* horse-power engines, entered by CaptainG. De Hamiland, and a B.A. Cupid twoseater cabin monoplane.