FRANCE'S HOPE
SCHNEIDER CUP PILOT LONDON, Feb. 2S. France's Schneider Cup hopes are being centred in (be record-breaking airman, M. Sadi Lecointe. Though only 38 years of age, he was a pre-war flying pioneer, and held the world's speed record seven times and the height record three times. M. Lecointe is now chief pilot for the firm of Nieuporte Delage, which is building a Schneider Cup machine of 2,200 horse-power, with a LorraineDietrich engine.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 77, 10 March 1931, Page 2
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74FRANCE'S HOPE Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 77, 10 March 1931, Page 2
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