SCHNEIDER CUP RACE
' ■BRITAIN PREPARES FOR
CONTEST,
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 4.
Remarkable speeds are being attained by the high speed section of the Royal Air Force, which is practising at Felixstowe, under the direction of Squadron-Leader Orlebar on a supermarine Rolls Royce and Gloster Napier racing planes, built for the Schneider trophy. It' is now expected that the difficulty in regard, to Italian and French entries for next year’s Schneider contest, will be overcome, and the race will be held in British Waters,
Although the speeds now being attained by British, pilots are not being Jivulged, it ,i« stated that the world’s record of 367 miles per hour, set up by Sqnadron-Lender Orlebar, has since been” exceeded in. these practising flights,
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 5
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