ORDER OF STARTING IN THE AIR RACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 13

ORDER OF STARTING IN THE AIR RACE

ARRANGEMENTS AT MILDENHALL MR. AND MRS. MOLLISON FIRST AWAY LONDON. Oct. IB After a ballot, the committee in charge of the starting arrangements for the great Centenary air race announced the order in which the com petitors will leave Mildcnhall aerodrome, Suffolk, on Saturday, for tie Flemington racecourse, Melbourne. Jt has been decided that all the machines will he lined up level and will start from the left and right-hand side alternately. The machines will leave at 45-second intervals. In the following table, which gives the order of departure, the letters S and H indicate whether the craft are entered for the speed dash, the handicap section oi both. j\- () Fliers Machine Nationality 63 J. A. and Mrs. Mollison. S.H. D.H. Comet British 5 Col. Roscoe Turner, C. Pang- • Boeing 'transport American born and Miss R. Nichols, S. , . , 29 Col. J. C. Fitzmauricc and Bellanca usiSgt. E. M. Bonar, S. ij.t.i 19 Lieut. 0.. Cathcart-Jones and D.H. Comet liritisn J. Waller, S.H. . , 6 D. L. Astes, G. J.iGcysen- Pander Dutch dorfer arid Prone, S. „ .... 58 Captain T. Neville Stack, S. Airspeed Viceroy Jintish L. Turner it McArthur, S.H. ... . . . 34 C. W. A. Scott and T. Camp- D.H. Comet imtisn bell Black, S.H. ~ , , 44 K. D. Parmentier, J. J. Moll, Douglas Vanbrugge, Prins, and 3 passengers: Gielesen, .Dominique and Fraulein Hasche, S.H. . 4G Miss .1. Cochran, W. Smith it Granville American K. Leonard (the last-named joining :it A Ihibnbtul), S. , 33 -I. H. Wright it.). Polando, H. Lambert Ainericau ]5 C. G. Davioa, S.H. Fairey 111. P. fritis h (32 Flying-Officer H. D. Oilman Fairey Fox Uritisn and J. K C. Baines, S.H. . , ,• :i(j .). Woods and Bennett, S.H. Lockheed \ ega v '/ inn 1 GO S(,dn.-Loader J. D. Hewett, D.H. Dragon *** /onlnnd C. E. Kav ct F. Stewart, S.H. ~ . 35 K. Parer and G." E. Hems- Fairey Fox Guinea worth, S.H. .. . , 7 Lieut. Hansen and Jensen, H. Desoulter u 'I'V 31 H. L. Brook and Miss Lay, H. Miles Falcon £ ntm » . , 2 Sydn.-Leader M C. McGregor Miles Hawk -Now Zealand and H. C. Walker, 11. 47 Flight-Lieut. G. Shaw, H. Kleinm Fagle || n .™ 14 D. E. Stodart and K. G. Airspeed Courier .British Stodart, H. . 16 C. J. Melrose, H. Pubs Moth Australian