AIR SUPREMACY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 122, 9 May 1931, Page 7

AIR SUPREMACY

BRITISH FLYERS TRAINING FOR SCHNEIDER CUP RACE. TRIALS AT ISLE OF WIGHT. f British Official Wireless.) (Received 9, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, May 8. The high-speed flight squadron of the Royal Air Force, which has been stationed at Felixstowe, has been transferred to Oalshot on Southampton Water, and is in training for the Schneider Trophy race, which will take place in September over tho Spithead course to the east and northeast of the Isle of Wight. Training will begin there on Monday. For the present, the team will not have available for practice the seaplanes of the super-marine Rolls-Royce 86 type on which the late Flight-Lieut. Waghoi-n won the Schneider Trophy race in 1929.

The existing craft of this type are undergoing modifications and new machines are still under construction. For the next few weeks training will be carried on with other high-speed 'planes. These include the Napier Gloster 4, and the Napier Gloster 5 type with which the Schneider race was won in 1927, also the Napier Gloster 6 and 3, which are somewhat slower machines. HONOURS FOR DEAD AIRMAN. (British Official Wireless.! \ (Received 9, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, May 8. The , body of Lieut.-Commander Kidston, in whose memory a service will be held in London, was entrained for Johannesburg at Harrismith, where he and Captain Gladstone met their deaths owing to the crashing of their aeroplane. Arrangements have been made for Kidston’s remains to be brought to England for burial. a record"flight. (Received 9 ,1.30 p.m.) The Hague, May 8. Tho Royal Dutch air liner completed a record flight from Batavia to Amsterdam in seven days. MODIFIED SERVICES. (Received 9, 1.45 p.m.) Sydney, May 9. The air mail service between Sydney and Melbourne is to be modified. Australian National Airways machines leave each capital three times weekly in future. Only one trip weexiy will be made each way. It is considered that the present traffic does not warrant continuation of the present service. On the other hnd, the service between Victoria and Tasmania is being increased from three times weekly to daily.