AIRCRAFT SPEED RECORD
BRITISH ATTEMPT (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, February 24. An attempt to establish a. world’s speed record for aircraft will ho made ou the first favorable day after March 5 with a snpormarinc Napier seaplane, which is a duplicate of the machine in which Flight Lieutenant Mobster won the Schneider trophy at Venice last September. The machine was one of the reserve seaplanes for the Yonice contest, but was not needed on that occasion. In next month’s test, which will take place over Southampton water before accredited representatives of the Federation Aeronauiique International, the machine will lie llown by Flight Lieutenant Kinkcad, the pilot of one of the British machines in the Schneider trophy race. The existing seaplane record is 296.j)4 miles hourly, hold by the Italian, Major Bernardi.
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 4
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134AIRCRAFT SPEED RECORD Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 4
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