RECORD AIR SPEED
♦ STAINFORTH'S ENGINE DISMANTLED. SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION. (BBITISII OITICIAL WIBELESS.) (Received March 6tli, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, March 4. The engine used by Flight-Lieuten-ant G. H. Stainforth in his world speed record flight of 4074 miles an hour last September has been oompletely dismantled for scientific examination at the Derby works of the makers, the Rolls Royee Company. Tho engine consists of 2450 parts, all of which are being microscopically examined and tested although _ apparently the 2560 norse-power engine bears no trace of the strain involved in its record flight when 3400 revolutions per minute were attained. A great mass of data was procured by similar examination to which the engines used in winning the two previous Schneider Trophy contests were afterwards subjected.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 9
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123RECORD AIR SPEED Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 9
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