BRITAIN TO ATTACK AIR SPEED RECORD
MACHINE A DUPLICATE OF SCHNEIDER CUP WINNER British Wireless —Press Assn. —Copyright Reed. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Friday. An attempt to establish a world’s speed record for aircraft will be made on the first favourable day after March 5, with a supermarine Napier seaplane which is a duplicate of the machine in which Flight-Lieutenant Webster won the Schneider Cup at Venice last September.
The machine was one of the reserve seaplanes for the Venice contest, but was not needed on that occasion. In next month’s test, which will take place over Southampton Water before accredited representatives of the Federation Aeronautique International, the machine will be flown by FlightLieutenant Kinkhead, pilot of one of the British machines in the Schneider trophy race.
The existing seaplane speed record is 296.94 miles an hour and is held by an Italian, Major Bernardi. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 9
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