LIGHT AEROPLANE RACE ROUND EUROPE
RESULT NOT YET DECLARED. RUGBY, Aug* 15. The result is not yet declared of the international light aeroplane round Europe flight, as time is required to work out its details, marks being awarded not only for speed, but for design, comfort, reliability, and many other factors.
Nevertheless, it is probable that the only British aeroplanes in tho race, down by Captain Broad and Miss Spooner, will be placed either first and second or very near the top of the list. Captain Broad few a Be Haviland Gipsy Moth machine, with the 100 h.p. engine, privately entered by the Do Haviland Aircraft Company, and Miss Spooner flew her own machine, which is also a moth. Tho total distance of tho course was about 4000 miles, and was over every kind of country. Captain Broad and Miss Spooner describe their flight as entirely uneventful, and state that but for the time-table of completion, they would have been back in Paris two or three days before the hour fixed for the arrival of the competitors. Yesterday afternoon 25 of the entrants reached Paris, and they all expressed a special admiration for the feat of the British airwoman.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6993, 20 August 1929, Page 2
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