GREAT AIR RACE
ENTRIES STILL ARRIVING. SOME FAST ’PLANES. FROM MANY COUNTRIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 4, 10.0 a.m. RUGBY, June 2. Entries for the centenary air race closed officially yesterday, but the list is being kept open, as notifications of a number of additional entries in transit by ship and aeroplane were made by telephone and cable. The full list, including these entries, will be made up in a few days. Up to the present 58 competitors, representing Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Irish Free State, America, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, and Sweden, have formally advised that they have entered for the event. A London cable says the fastest standard aircraft entered for the centenary race is the Lockheed Altair to be used by Sir Charles Ivingsford Smith and Miss Ruth Nicholls, which has a top speed of 230 miles an hour. The Northrop Delta, to be flown by Marshall Lindholm, has a speed of 221 m.p.li., and a Douglas DO 2, by Harold Gatty and Roscoe Turner, also the Dutch Airlines, 210 m.p.li. All three are American.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 7
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186GREAT AIR RACE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 7
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