BRITISH FLYING TRIUMPH
AIR RACE ROUND EUROPE. British Wireless. Rugby, July 31. Captain Broad and Mr. Alan Butler were the only two competitors, out of GO entrants in the air circuit of Europe, to earn the maximum, 270 points, for flight and reliability. Mr. Carberry, another British entrant, was third with 268. Broad and Butler both used Gipsy Moths, and their average speed during tho 4750 miles circuit was 110 miles an hour. Marks were also awarded for «omfort, for consumption, and other technical points and tests. These begin at Berlin to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 9
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