A REAL SPEED HOUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21052, 14 June 1930, Page 24

A REAL SPEED HOUND.

“ Shot,” the iyorld's most sophisticated dog, has flown over 10,000 miles in an aeroplane, travelled at 60 miles an hour in a speed boat; sat complacently at the side o£ his master in a racing car; and is known at practically every night club in London.' “ Shot ” is the black spaniel belonging to Mr Sydney St. Barbe, the well-known sky-writing pilot. At Hendon Aerodrome I was introduced to “ Shot" (writes a Daily Chronicle representative). He immediately showed his love of the air by leading me and his master to the special sky-writing aeroplane which has had a compartment built into the pilot’s seat to accommodate the dog. “He has flown everywhere with me since he was given to me three years and a-hulf ago. Now he is better known in aviation circles than I am," said Mr St ; Barbe. “He has done nearly everything I have done. He has travelled in a speed boat in Poole, Harbour, and even went so far as jumping from the back of a boat travelling at 00 miles an hour in an attempt to catch a seagull! Generally he flies alone in the front cockpit of my Moth aeroplane. He is never strapped in, and often with his paws on the edge of the fuselage he leans forward so that the air stream catches him full in the face. " ' Shot ’ does not coniine his activities to travel, though. He has the right of entry into practically every night club in London, ’where, Although everyone in<ilegs a fuss of him. he behaves perfectly.”