SEVEREST TEST.
Prospects for Air Race Reviewed. CLOSE FINISH EXPECTED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 22. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 21. The “ Manchester Guard ; an,” summing up the prospects for the air race, considers that no plane with a speed of under 200 miles an hour will have much chance of success. “ The first three will probably have to run as great risks as those involved in an Atlantic flight,” says the newspaper. “ One hundred mile* gained will make all the difference between .success and failure. The temptation to cut corners will be acute, but wiL take pilots far from the safe commercia 1 routes. “ Speed, however, will not be the omv factor. Range, night flying, equipment and navigational ability are equally important. Whoever wins wnl have emerged from the severest test for modern machines and pil ting anyone could wish for.’’
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 1
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