RACING PLANES
BRITISH HOLDER OF RECORD. ENORMOUS POWER OF ENGINE. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 25. (Received Feb. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) . It is revealed to-day that the horsepower of,the Rolls-Royce engine in the silpermarine S 6, which won the Schneider trophy and broke the world’s speed record last September, is 1900. This power is enormous for so small) a machine, but when the engine has been further improved experts believe that it will develop 2500 horse-power at least. In the previous • Schneider .contest in 1927 the horse-power developed by the . British machines was 900. It was an enormohs advance to produce an engine with a power capacity more than doubL that of the engines used in the race two years before. . It is mentioned that the two Italian machines in last year’s race were each fitted with two 900 horse-power engines, and it was thought that they would win with that 'power, because it was not realised that the combined horse-power of these two engines did not equal that of a single engine in' tile British machine.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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184RACING PLANES Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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