SCHNEIDER CUP RACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 9

SCHNEIDER CUP RACE.

BRITISH PILOTS TRAINING.

HIGH SPEED SEAPLANES.

(Received April 7. 8.45 p.m.)

LONDON. April G.

Eight airmen, from whom three will be selected to defend the Schneider Cup in September, have commenced training at Felixstowe.

Tho machines used in tho contest in 1929 have been further streamlined and now are capable of a speed of 380 miles an hour, but experts confidently expect at least 400 miles an hour from tho new seaplanes

The British machines available for the Schneider Cup contest this year, and for practice as Felixstowe, are:—Two Super-marine-Rolls-Royce S6 machines, as flown in the 1929 contest. Two Gloster-Napier machines, built for the 1929 contest, but not flown in it. Two Supermanne-Namer S5 machines, the type with which Britain won the contest in 1927; one of them, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant D Arcy Greig flew in the 1929 contest. A number of the Fairey " Flycatcher' machines, which are always the first high-speed aircraft on which pilots newly appointed to Felixstowe try their skill. Flight-Lieutenant John N. Boothman has been doing more high-speed flying than "any other officer this year, and JP'R' 11 ' Lieutenants Francis W. Long and Eustace J L Hope have also been engaged in this work. It is regarded as certain that no member of the 1929 team will actually <ike part in this years contest, which will be over the Solent-Spithead couise.