Final Trials for Big Seaplane Race
THE SCHNEIDER CUP CONTEST AT VENICE British Wireless—Press Assn Copyright Reed. 11.20 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. Trials of seaworthiness of the Italian and British flying boats in the competition at Venice for the Schneider Cup are taking place to-day. These involve two take-offs a.'rid two landings in a course of 20 miles, and then mooring: to buoys for six hours in order to test possible leakages. The race is at 2.30 on Sunday. The course is 300 kilometres, in a triangle off Lido. There will be seven laps, involving 19 turns in all.
The British team is as follows: Flight-Lieutenant Kinnead, pilot of the Gloster biplane; Flight-Lieutenant Webster, pilot of the supermarine airplane and Flight-Lieutenant Worsley, supermarine. In reserve are Squadron-Leader Slater, and one Gloster, and one supermarine. The Italian team is made up of De Bernardi, Ferrarin, and Guazetti, who all pilot Macchi machines, with Fiat engines. In reserve is Guasconi, with one Macchi.—A. and M.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 1
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