TOPICS OF OUTSTANDING INTEREST RELATING TO THE START AND EARLY PROGRESS OF THE GREAT CENTENARY AIR RACE FROM ENGLAND TO MELBOURNE: FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE PARTICIPATING FLIERS From left, top: I. Colonel Roscoe Turner, United States, fifth to complete the first stage of the speed event as far as Bagdad. 2. The large Pander Mail machine of the Dutchmen, Astea, Geysendorfer and Prone, fourth to reach Bagdad. 3. The British pilot, C. W. A. Scott, second ito arrive in BagdaA slightly leas than two hours behind the leaders, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison. Centre: 1. The Aucklanders, Squadron-Leader J. D. Hswett and Flying-Officer C. E. Kay (inset), who are making good time. 2. The Special Bellanca monoplane, sensationally withdrawn from the race at the last: minute owing to the enforcement of a load limit. Colonel J. C., Fitzmaurice, Ireland, was to have been the pilot. 3. Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor (right) and Mr. H. C. Walker, the Manawatu pilots, who have made good progress in the handicap section of the race. Bottom: I. Khadimain Mosque, one; of the «hief landmarks of Bagdad, first checking point in the sgeed event. 2. K. D, Parmentier, chief pilot of the Dutch air liner, a Douglas machine, which was third to reach Bagdad. 3. The Airspeed Courier, flown by the Stodart Brothers. A cabin window of this machine was broken during a atc>rm, bu* the two competitors carried on without waiting for repairf.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21937, 22 October 1934, Page 6

TOPICS OF OUTSTANDING INTEREST RELATING TO THE START AND EARLY PROGRESS OF THE GREAT CENTENARY AIR RACE FROM ENGLAND TO MELBOURNE: FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE PARTICIPATING FLIERS From left, top: I. Colonel Roscoe Turner, United States, fifth to complete the first stage of the speed event as far as Bagdad. 2. The large Pander Mail machine of the Dutchmen, Astea, Geysendorfer and Prone, fourth to reach Bagdad. 3. The British pilot, C. W. A. Scott, second ito arrive in BagdaA slightly leas than two hours behind the leaders, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison. Centre: 1. The Aucklanders, Squadron-Leader J. D. Hswett and Flying-Officer C. E. Kay (inset), who are making good time. 2. The Special Bellanca monoplane, sensationally withdrawn from the race at the last: minute owing to the enforcement of a load limit. Colonel J. C., Fitzmaurice, Ireland, was to have been the pilot. 3. Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor (right) and Mr. H. C. Walker, the Manawatu pilots, who have made good progress in the handicap section of the race. Bottom: I. Khadimain Mosque, one; of the «hief landmarks of Bagdad, first checking point in the sgeed event. 2. K. D, Parmentier, chief pilot of the Dutch air liner, a Douglas machine, which was third to reach Bagdad. 3. The Airspeed Courier, flown by the Stodart Brothers. A cabin window of this machine was broken during a atc>rm, bu* the two competitors carried on without waiting for repairf.