GREAT AIR RACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12

GREAT AIR RACE

KING'S CLIP ARRANGEMENTS NEW TYPES OF MACHINES British Wirelesij RUGBY, Aug. 23 The King's Cup air race will be flown this year on September 6 and 7. More than 30 entries have been received, including one from tho Duko of Kent. As a compromise between its earlier round-Britain course and the recent there-and-back laps, the organisers have planned an eliminating course on tho first day, consisting of a flight round England over a total distance of about 950 miles. On the second day the flight for the surviving machines will be over a number of laps of a circuit of not less than 50 miles in length up to a total distance of 350 miles. Several of the machines entered are capable of speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour, including the Percival Mew Gull of the Duke of Kent and a Comet monoplane similar to the craft which won the England-Australia air race. Machines that will be seen by the public for the first time in the race are an experimental De Havilland DH9O cabin biplane, powered with two Gipsy Major 130 h.p. engines, entered by Captain G. De Havilland; also a B.A. Cupid twojjseater cabin monoplane.