THE £5000 FLIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5

THE £5000 FLIGHT.

FOR WATERPLANES. TWO COMPETITORS START. By Telegraph—Press Aeso'ciation— Copyright London, August 17. Owing to Mr. S. F. Cody'6 death and Mr. Radley's retirement, there are only two competitors for the "Daily Mail's" sea plane flight round Britain lor a prize of .£SOOO to determine whether a Britishmade engine ia equal to the task. ■!Mr. Hawker, on a Sopwith biplane, and accompanied by A. Kauper, an Australian mechanic, left Southampton and reacihed Yarmouth in four and o-half hours. He averaged a mile a minute. Hawker was then suffering from sunstroke, end Mr. Pickles took his place.

Mr. M'Lean, his rival, is on a Short biplane, equipped with lOOJiorse-power Green fixed cylindrical engines.

WATERPLANES IN WAR. NAVAL AUTHORITIES IMPRESSED. London, August 17. The naval authorities were so impressed by the utility of waterplanes during the recent naval manoeuvres that they have intited two hundred lieutenants to volunteer for the Flying Corps. The Sopwith flying boat hua won the Mortimer Singer trophy of in a series of flights by aeroplane with descents on land and water, i The preliminary arrangements in connection with the "Daily Mail" .£SOOO hydroplane contest were considerably hampered by the restrictions imposed by the administration of the Aerial Navigar tion Act, which was' passed to prevent foreign espionage .from the air, and is being used to impede the progress of Bri"tisn flying. ■ Five weeks Defore the date of the race the committee was unable to announce the starting point, and the- inconvenience to this and other competitions became, so irksome that tho Royal Aero Clmb took the irfatter up, and after investigations sent' in a protest to' tho War Office, the Home Office, and the Admiralty. 1 . ■