CENTENARY AIR RACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9

CENTENARY AIR RACE

ONLY TWO DUTCH ENTRANTS NO FOKKERS TAKING PART AMSTERDAM, September 11. There will be only two Dutch entrants for the air race-—a Douglas plane piloted by Parmentier, and a Pander, piloted by Astes and Geysen-Dorffer. No Fokkers are taking part. AMERICAN PLANE TESTED NEW YORK, September 11. (Received Sept. 12, at 9 p.m.) Turner and Pangborn, testing the air mail aeroplane they will use in the Centenary Race, flew non-stop from Seattle to Los Angeles,, 1180 miles, at an average speed of 204 miles an hour. The total flying time was 5 hours 20 minutes. They will attempt a transcontinental flight to lower the existing record. THE AUSTRALIA PLANE SYDNEY, September 12. (Recciv' ’ Sept. 12, at 11.30 p.m.) Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has been officially advised that he will be able to leave Australia on September 25, even if information certifying to the airworthiness of his monoplane has not arrived. The Civil Aviation Department anticipates that the American Department of Commerce will shortly cable a certificate of airworthiness for race purposes. Sir Charles is delighted. He said that on the certificate depends the amount of petrol he would be permitted to carry.