KING’S CUP AIR RACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 9

KING’S CUP AIR RACE

OVER THIRTY ENTRIES AN ELIMINATING COURSE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 23. The King’s Cup Air Race will be flown this year on September C and 7. Over 30 entries have been received, including one from the Duke of Kent. As a compromise between the earlier round Britain course and the recent there-and-back laps, the organisers have planned an eliminating course on the first day, consisting of a flight round

England over a total distance of approximately 900 miles, and on the second day a flight for the surviving machines 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 Peroival New Gull of the Duke of Kent and a Comet monoplane similar to the craft that won the England-Australia Race. Machines which will be seen by the public for the first time in the race are an experi-i mental De Havilland D.H. 90, cabin biplane with two Gipsy Major 130 horsepower engines, entered by Captain G. De Havilland and a B.A. Cupid twoseater cabin monoplane.