KING’S AIR RACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 199, 26 August 1935, Page 7

KING’S AIR RACE

THIS YEAR’S EVENT. DUKE OF KENT COMPETING. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Aug. 23. The King’s Cup air race will be flown this year on September 6 and 7. Over thirty entries have been received, including one from the Duke of Kent. As a compromise between the earlier “Round Britain” course and the recent “there and back” laps, the organisers have planned an eliminating course on the first day consisting of a flight round Englund 'over a total distance of approximately 950 miles, and, on the second day, a flight for the surviving machines over a number of laps of a circuit of not less than fifty miles in length, up to a total distance of 350 miles. Several of the machines which have been entered are capable of speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. They include tho Percival New Gull of the Duke of Kent and a Comet monoplane similar to the craft that won the England-Australia speed and handicap races last October. Machines which will be seen by the public for the first .time in the race are an experimental machine, a do Haviland D.H. 90 cabine biplane, powered with two Gipsy Major 130 horse-power engines, entered by Captain G. de Haviland, and a B.A. Cupid two-seater cabin monoplane.