THE SCHNEIDER CUP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17045, 2 September 1929, Page 7

THE SCHNEIDER CUP

ITALIAN PREPARATIONS GOOD BRITISH TEST (British Official WitneJkm) Roc.. 10 a.rn. RUGBY, August 31. The Italian Air Minister, General Balbo, is expected in London to-day, and will make his headquarters at Cowes for the Schneider Cup contest. Another party of 20 officers and mechanics is duo at Calshot to-morrow, and a special arm with aeroplanes and stores will arrive at about the same time.

The Italian team will only be about three days behind the originally announced date. Up to the present they have missed practically no flying weather, for no British high-speed seaplane has 'been able to get into the air until to-day since last Sunday. The most elaborate arrangements have been made for the accommodation on Saturday of hundreds of thousands of spectators and scores of thousands of motor cars and charabancs at vantage points on the mainland and the Isle of Wight, particularly near positions where the machines will turn on the short quadrilateral course over the Solent. A

At Calshot to-day, ' Flying-Officer Atcherley took up the seaplane supermarine Rolls-Royce 86, which is one of the British hopes for the Schneider Trophy. Superbly handling the machine, Flying-Officer Atcherley is estimated to have attained a speed of 350 miles ail hour. NEW BRITISH MACHINE SUCCESSFUL MAIDEN FLIGHT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received September 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 1.

Another of Britain’s Schneider Cup hopes, the Gloster-Napier 6, Golden Racer, was given her maiden flight during the week-end by Squadron-Leader Orlebar. Though flying only halfthrottle she showed amazing control in a series of hair-raising dashes. Simultaneously, Lieut. Monti took up Italy’s 1927 plane Moor of Venice, which was slow by comparison with the Golden Racer, with which British observers aro fully satisfied.