NOVEL AIR RACE
AEROPLANE BEATS PIGEON IN BLIND RACE HOME. In a recent race between a pigeon and a pilot, undertaken for a wager in aid of a Norwich hospital, the pilot won by a margin of 15 minutes on a /0 miles' flight. The pilot, Squadron-Leader C. A. Rea, was taken out from Norwich with the pigeon in a closed car with the blinds down, to a field in the neighbourhood of Saffron Walden. An aeroplane, without a compass, was waiting, and the pilot and pigeon were released together to make the best of their individual ways back to Norwich aerodrome. Aided by the sun, and an intimate knowledge of the topography of Norfolk Squadron-Lead >r Rea set out on an easterly course which soon brought him over Duxford aerodrome, from where he knaw his way home. His fifteen-minutes' victory showed that although he flew one and a half times as fast as the pigeon, h. gained onl/ at the rate of one-third of a mile for i /ery mile the pigeon covered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 6
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174NOVEL AIR RACE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 6
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