REGULATING AIR RACES
COBHAM’S SUGGESTION
LONDON, June 8
Critics are using the Bournemouth collision yesterday, which resulted in thb deaths of Flight-Lieutenant, W. H. Lorigtori and Major L. I’. Opemdiaw, to direct attention tel the need for a revision of. the rules governing air racing. ' > . Sir AlUrt Cdbliaiii, in an article in the’ Daily Mail, Emphasises the danger of airmail Hying. Jow, bunched together, round a • narrow cilcuit, and suggests that air races should be conducted over, ivide coiirses; stretching from town to town.
Replying to the criticism directed at tli'eir continuance of the racing programme lifter the' tragedy yesterday, the pilots who competed dt Bournemouth explain that they conformed to the Rdyiil Air Force ft tradition to ignore' fatalities’’. \ "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 11
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