AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1929, Page 2

AVIATION

KING’S CUP RACE. AVON BY LIEUT. ATCIIERLEY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, July fl. The King’s Cup air race resulted: Lieutenant Atcherley, in a GlosterGrebe ’plane—first. Lieutenant Richardson in a Moth—second. Captain Hope, in a Gipsy Moth—third. LONDON, July 6.

The finish of the air race provided an unexpected thrill for the thousands waiting for the finish. Two machines appeared in the offing, racing nec k and neck, one of whom was presumed to be Captain Stack, who had led throughout, but it proved that Captain Stack had been forced down owing to engine trouble. The -o'n-coiiung rivals were Atcherley and Richardson. The former took the lead a mile from heme, and he won by one hundred yards. Five minutes covered the finishes of the first four planes. Atcherley’s average speed was 150.3 miles per hour. The next best was Fielden, in a Glos-ter-Grebe, who averaged 143.3 miles an hour. Richardson with an average of 100.2 miles hourly, won the Siddeley trophy for light planes. , Miss Spooner, in a Gipsy Moth, was placed fifth. She headed the women competitors.

Mrs Butler and Lady Bailey, both in Gipsy Moth Coupes, also finished. Captain Stack, despite his forced landing, came in sixth.

UP 172 HOURS. NEW U.S.A. PLANE RECORD. NEW ORK, July 5. At Cleveland, Ohio, a new world’s record for re-fuelling' air plane flights has been established by Pilots Mitchell and Newcomb in the monoplane, “ City of Cleveland.” They descended earl}' on Saturday morning after being one hundred and seventy-four hours, fiftynine seconds in the air. The previous record was one hundred and seve itvtwo hours, thirty-two minutes, one second. .HUGE FLYING BOAT. TO CARRY 120 PEOPLE. BERLIN, July o. The great Dornier flying boat, boxbuilt, which is to carry 120 persons,

is finished,‘and will be submitted for inspection by the world’s press oil iimsuay at Rorschache, on the Sw.iis of Lake, Constance,, where it .has teen .in course of construction for nv r . and a-half years. • .* . It has three decks and twelve engines. It will have a. speed 0f,125 miles an hour. Its length is T3L feet, its height 33 feet, and its breadth lOC feet. • . , ,

DRINK CAUSES DEATH. , NEAV YORK, July o. A sensation has been caiised by an official announcement by the ’ city Toxicoligist, Dr Goettler, that the famous airman, Stultz, whose fatal crash was cabled on July 2, >was very drunk at the tinie of his death. The doul airman has already been declared responsible for the crasl). The authorities will now disc!mi ge all pilots found drinking. ’