NATIONAL AIR RACES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1048, 12 August 1930, Page 9

NATIONAL AIR RACES

BRITAIN SENDS SPEEDSTER TO CHICAGO SCHNEIDER CUP PILOT RUGBY, Saturday. Flight-Lieutenant R. L. R. Atcherley, a Scheider Cup pilot, will represent. Britain in the national air races to be held at Chicago on August 22. He has bpeil invited to visit the United States by Lieutenant Roger Q. Williams, an American Schneider Cup race pilot, who has been in Europe for the last two weeks conveying invitations to representative fliers in Britain. France, Italy and Germany to compete at the forthcoming meeting. Lieutenant Atcherley and a German pilot, Captain Loshe, left Southampton today. The British airman took with him his own machine. He has been granted special leave by the Air Ministry.

After an official reception at New York the pilots will fl'y in international formation to Chicago, Lieutenant Atcherley leading.

Flight-Lieutenant R. L. R. Atcherley made a world’s speed record for a seaplane flight in one lap of the Schneider Cup in 1929. In 1929 he won the King’s Cup for the fastest flight on a course of 1,000 miles in England. He was chosen a member of the British team for the Schneider Cup contest in the same year. The course was 2185 miles, made up of seven laps over the Solent, with four sharp turns in each lap. On one lap Lieutenant Atcherley made a world’s record for speed on such a course—332.49 miles an hour —but he failed to win the trophy, His average speed for the whole distance, owing chiefly to bad IdiclL in getting up speed on the first lap, was below that of his fellowofßcer, Waghorn, the winner.