SCHENIDER CUP ENGINE
MINUTE EXAMINATION MADE. The engine used by Flight Lieutenant Stainforth in his world speed record flight of 4071 miles an hour last September has been completely dismantled for scientific examination at the Derby works of the makers, the Rolls Royce Company. The engine consists of 2-150 parts, all of which are being microscopically examined and tested, although apparently the 25G0 horse-power engine bears no trace of the strain involved in its record flight, when 3400 revolutions a minute were attained.
A groat mass of data was procured by a similar examination to which the engines used in winning the two previous Schneider Trophy contests were afterwards subjected. *
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Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 9 March 1932, Page 4
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110SCHENIDER CUP ENGINE Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 9 March 1932, Page 4
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