RACE ROUND EUROPE
BRITISH AIRWOMAN WINS PRAISE RESULT NOT YET KNOWN British Official Wireless Reed. 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. The result is not yet declared of the international light airplane roundEurope flight, as time is required to work out its details, marks being awarded, not only for speed, but also for design, comfort, reliability, and many other factors. Nevertheless, it is probable that the only British airplanes in the race, flown by Captain Broad and Miss Spooner, will he placed either first and second, or very near the top of the list. Captain Broad flew a De Havilland Gipsy Moth machine with a 100 h.p. engine. It was privately entered by the De Havilland Aircraft Company.' Miss Spooner flew Her own machine, which is also a Moth. The total distance of the course was about 4,000 miles, and was over every kind of country. Captain Broad and Miss Spooner describe their flight as entirely uneventful, and but for the time-table of the completion they would have been back In Paris two or three days before the hour fixed for the arrival of the competitors yesterday afternoon. Twenty-five of the entrants reached Paris, and they all expresed special admiration for the feat of the British airwoman.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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205RACE ROUND EUROPE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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