MACHINE FOR AIR RACE.—Miss Jacqueline Cochran, one of the leading American airwomen, will be partnered by Wesley Smith, another well-known American pilot, in a special Northrop high-speed machine, powered with a Wright engine. There are no detailed performance figures for their machine, but the general description gives to it a very high speed indeed, in the vicinity of 250 m.p.h. over long distances. They have entered for both speed and handicap sections of the race.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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75MACHINE FOR AIR RACE.—Miss Jacqueline Cochran, one of the leading American airwomen, will be partnered by Wesley Smith, another well-known American pilot, in a special Northrop high-speed machine, powered with a Wright engine. There are no detailed performance figures for their machine, but the general description gives to it a very high speed indeed, in the vicinity of 250 m.p.h. over long distances. They have entered for both speed and handicap sections of the race. Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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