CENTENARY AIR RACE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19783, 26 April 1934, Page 9

CENTENARY AIR RACE

LEADING AVIATORS TO COMPETE AMERICAN CRITICISM OF RULES United Presi Association—B.v SlectrVj Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. The famous German aii ace, Herr Udet, is entering the Centenary race, with a machine of his own manufacture. A Frenchman, M. Couzinet, is entering with a low wing three-engined monoplane. ANOTHER WOMAN ENTERS. PLANS OF NEW YORK AVI \TRIX. ounc.. Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) MIAMI (Florida), April 23. Miss Laura Ingalls, the New York aviatrix, stated to-day that she planned to enter the English-Austra-lia air race. She arrived here on Sunday from Havana, completing a 1600 mile solo flight through Central and South America. AMERICAN OBJECTIONS. PENALISING RULES CRITICISED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 23. The National Aeronautic Association gave the Australian Press Association the following statement:— Information available from Australia on the Macßobertson competition implied that it is only a handicap race, restricted to standard aircraft holding an air worthiness certificate, normal category. The rules booklet printed in January by the Royal Aero Club, London, stipulates that a normal category certificate is required for both speed and handicap events. This will bar American long distance and speed planes carrying so-called N.R. certificates of the Department of Commerce. These certificates are issued to specially built craft, considered airworthy, but not of the standard for commercial operation. Such planes as Mr Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae, Colonel Lindbergh's Lockheed, and the “Spirit of St. Louis,” “Hawk’s Fire,” “Chief Turners” and Weddell’s cross country racers will be barred if the normal category rule is enforced. Mr Ray is to ask that planes eligible for the annual Bendix trans-Continental race of the United States should be eligible for the Macßobertson race which would permit of the entry of American speed and distance craft.