AIR SPEED RECORD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17178, 7 February 1930, Page 8

AIR SPEED RECORD

BRITAIN PREPARES NEW ATTEMPT SHORTLY (liritisl. Official Wireless.) Pee. 1 p.m. Rugby, Fob. 6. An attempt will he made shortly in this country to lireak tin- present air speed record of 357.7 miles fin hour created hy Souadron-Leader Orlehur at ('alshni' last Sep!ember. Tlip new al tempt will he made in a Pdoster-Napier-Six which was laiilt for the Schneider Trophy race hut- did not participate owing to trouble with the petrol feeding svstem. This difficulty has now been solved and the builders of the machine and engineers arc. confident of its ability to set up ;i new speed record. The attempt, will be made at Felixstowe. ,\ London message on January 27 stated: Sadi Lccointe, the French ace, and Paillard, the pilot, are practising high-speed, flying, at Bordeaux, using a, 600 horse-power monoplane in. readiness for testing a faster and more powermonoplane, in which Lecointe expects to attack in February the world speed record of 357.7 miles an hour, held hy the British flyer, Squadron-Leader Orlebar. Meanwhile, Britain is preparing to challenge any new record. The Grloster.Napier machines, used in the Schneider Cup race, are being modified to give greater speeds, and Squadron-Loader Urlebar and Flight-Lieutenant Stainloeth. who were both members of Britain's last Schneider Gup loam, are in training in readiness to pilot them if the British record is broken.