HYDROPLANE TESTS.
ONLY TWO COMPETITORS,-one-avejilgl^a MM A MEfUTE. • ; (Reeaitfe August 18, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Owing to Mr S. F. Cody's death and Mr Rsdley's retirement, there are only two competitors for the Daily Mail's sea plane flight round Britain for a prize of £SOOO to determine whether a British-made engine is equal to the task. Mr Hawker, on a Sopwith biplane, and accompanied by A. Kauper, an Australian -nechanic, left Southampton and reached Yanrouth in four and a half hours. He averaged a mile a minute. Mr McLean, his rival, is on a Short biplane, equipped with 100 horse power Green fixed cylindrical engines. ' HAWKER SUFFERING FROM SUNSTROKE. (Received August 18, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Hawker is suffering from sunstroke. M. Pickles takes his plaee.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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128HYDROPLANE TESTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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