FLIGHT ROUND BRITAIN.
IN NINE HOURS. MARTLESHAM (Eng.), Sept. 12. A. J. Oobham, flying a Puma ’plane, has won the King’s Cup race over the 950-mile course around Great Britain, in which ten ’planes competed on a handicap basis. C'obham completed the course in 9 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds, but after the deduction of his handicap allowance his net time w r as computed at 5 hours 59 minutes. Captain N. MacMillan, piloting a seaplane, was second in the net time of G hours 15 minutes dlseconds. Alan S. Butler, in a DH37, was third in 6 hours 22 minutes. The race is largely a test of the various types of engine and ability cf pilots to make straight flights from one point directly to another.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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127FLIGHT ROUND BRITAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 October 1924, Page 5
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