GREAT AIR RACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21853, 16 July 1934, Page 9

GREAT AIR RACE

KING'S CUP CONTEST WIN FOR SCHOFIELD , (Received July 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 14 Flight-Lieutenant Schofield, flying a Monospar, won the King's Cup air race, with an average speed of 134.16 miles an hour, over six circuits of 23£ miles. Thomas Rose, who flew a Hawk, was secondywith an average of 127.76 miles an hour. L. Lipton, flying a Moth, was third, with an average of 124.6 miles an hour.

Flight-Lieutenant Schofield Baid that the conditions were terribly rough and that he found it difficult to keep his seat.

Fourteen competitors qualified for the semi-final. Three former winners, Captains De Havilland, Hope and Broad, were eliminated.

Prince George's PercivalGull, piloted by Mr. E. W. Percival, the Australian designer, failed to qualify in a heat in which it started from scratch in torrential rain. The machine flew at 212 miles an hour most of the time, which was 20 miles an hour better than the time for the cup record, but this only enabled it to finish fifth. Tho final lap was spoiled by further torrential thunderstorms.

Mrs. Patterson, tho only woman pilot, who had previously brilliantly won her heat, was forced down by the bad weather and retired.

Captain Do Havilland ,won the King's Cup race last year in a Leopard Moth cabin aeroplane, with an average speed of 180.5 miles an hour. Flight-Lieutenant Harry M. Scliofield, this year's winner, is a test pilot. He was born in Clnpham, London, on November 28, 1899. He served in the Royal Air Force 1917-29 and was a member of the Schneider Trophy team at Venice in 1927. Ho was chief pilot to National Flving Services, Limited, loao-.'ii.