SPEED HEROES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 9

SPEED HEROES.

AIRMAN AND MOTORIST. SEGRAVE AND WEBSTER MEET. \.KT OABIT. -TRRSS ASSOCIATION—COfTRIGftT.) ..AUSTRALIAN AND K.i, CABLK ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 6th. 5.5 p.m.) IXDNDON, November 5. Major Segrave nnd Flight-Lieuten-ant Webster, the world's speed heroes. met as guests at the Civil Service Motoring Association's dinner. They recognised each other at a glance and exchanged cheery greetings and mutual congratulations on their respective performances. Afterwards the diner* sang ''For They Are Jolly Good Fellows."

Major Segrave, responding to a toast, said: "As a pilot myself during the war. 1 admir.e every good pilot. Flight-Lieutenant Webster is the best the Air Force has produced, and I the worst. 1 had a machine which was a ghastly affair. The engine was behind and the pilot stuck out in front. 1 landed in an undignified way at the first effort, got another machine, and landed '2O feet up. fell like a stone, and then set off th? third time with instructions not to risk a landing at Dover, but to go straight on to France. The propeller blade dropped off six -miles from the Channel, for which reason I chose dropping into the sea in preference to gliding over n cliff."

Webster said; "Major Segrave's record in motoring eclipses mine in flying because he has tenfold worse elements to contend with."

[Flight-Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster won the Schneider Cup race for Britain at Lido Beach, Venice, from the Italians, attaining a record speed of 381' miles 756 ynrds per hour. His speed for the fastest lap was 284 J miles per hour. Flight-Lieutenant Worsley (Britain) was second, with an average speed of 273 miles 171 yards per hour. Flight-Lieutenant V. AT. Kinnead (Britain) abandoned the race after the third lap. All the Italians, includinc Captain De Barnardi, abandoned their attempt. Major H. 0. D. Segrave, at Daytonia Beach. Florida, established a world's record of 203.8 H miles per hour in his four ton speedster in March last.]

DE BARNARDI'S ACHIEVEMENT. (Received November 6th, .5.5 p.m.) ROME. November 5. Captain De Barnardi, last year's Schneider Cup winner, beat Lieutenant Webster's record, attaining 298 miles hourly in the morning and 297 miles in the" afternoon.