THE SCHNEIDER CUP
BRITISH TEAM PREPARES -100 MILES AN HOUR EXPECTED LONDON, April 6. Light airmen, from whom three will bo selected to defend the Schneider Trophy in September, have commenced training at Felixstowe. The 1929 machines have been further streamlined and are now capable of SCO miles an hoar, hut experts conlideiitly expect at least 400 miles from the new seaplanes. Again this year, as in 1920, the racing seaplanes wiil tly over British waters. Last time Flight-Lieutenant 11. !!. D. W aghorn won the contest at the average speed of 328.63 miles an hour. •Second to finish was Mares’-iallo dal Molin, the Italian pilot of an old Maeehi 52 monoplane, who averaged 394 miles an hour. One British entrant, Flying Officer Atchrrley. was disqualilicd fur failing to round one of the pylons al the turning points, but succeeded in establishing new world speed records over distances of 50 and 180 kilometres. Lieutenants Monti and ( 'adringher in new Maeehi 67 seaplanes failed to complete the course—they wort* blinded 'by exhaust fumes and oil —and Flight Lieutenant D'Arey Greig was third on the old Supermarine 85 monoplane which won at Venice in 1927.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 7
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192THE SCHNEIDER CUP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 7
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