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THE JACQUES SCHNEIDER CUP RACE ON^Wednesday of next week, September 10, the seaplane race for the Schneider Cup and Prize will be flown at Bourne mouth. Owing to the short notice given, there are doubtless many constructors who would have liked to enter machines for this race, but who have been unable to get machines finished in time. The consequence is that comparatively few competitors have been entered. Italy is represented by only one machine, France by three. America has not entered any. After the great development in aircraft during the War it might have been expected that a contest like the Schneider Cup Race would have attracted a greater number of entrants, not only from abroad, but also from this country. However, it appears that as it is Britain will be the only country to enter enough machines to necessitate the holding be of great importance if the weather happens to be rough. It is, in fact, this feature of the race which will give some of the slower sturdier machines a chance in what would otherwise be purely a speed race. Again, if it were announced beforehand where the machines must alight, this would afford spectators an opportunity to watch the race from some point close to the place of alighting, which is likely to prove, in some respects, considerably more interesting than the actual air racing. Presumably the competing machines will carry some form of identification marks or numbers, but up to the present no announcement has been made concerning these. It might have been expected that such a race as this would be taken the fullest advantage of to assist in popularising THE AVRO-PUMA SCHNEIDER CUP SEAPLANE : Coming in after a successful trial flight at Hamble, on August 29 of elimination trials, usually not the least interesting feature of the Schneider Cup Race. These elimination trials will, we understand, be held at Cowes on Wednesday of this week, when it will be decided which of the four entrants will have to withdraw from the final race at Bournemouth. As an nounced last week, the course is a triangle with Bournemouth as the starting and finishing point, the two other angles being at Swanage and Christchurch respectively. The actual length of the course is about 20 nautical miles, and as the race is to be flown over a distance of 200 nautical miles, competitors will have to make ten laps of the course. The machines, should, if the weather is reasonably clear, be in sight throughout the race, while a close view of them will be obtainable from either Bournemouth, Swanage or Christ- church. As in 1914 competitors must, during the first lap of the course, make two alightings on the sea at points in dicated by the officials. No information is available yet as to the exact location of these two points, although this may aviation, but it does not appear that as much has been made of the opportunity as might have been, by those responsible for the organisation of the race. The Machines If all the machines entered start in the race, and after eliminating one of the four British entrants, the contest will be between seven machines. The four entered by this country are : Avro tractor seaplane, 240 h.p. Siddeley " Puma" engine, pilot Capt. Hamersley, M.C. ; Fairey tractor seaplane, 450 h.p. Napier " Lion" engine, pilot, Lieut.-Col. Vincent Nicholl, D.S.O. ; Sopwith tractor sea plane, 450 h.p. Cosmos " Jupiter " engine, pilot, Mr. H. G. Hawker, A.F.C. ; Supermarine flying-boat, 450 h.p. Napier "Lion" engine, pilot, Squad.-Comdr. B. D. Hobbs, D.S.O., D.F.C. The machines entered by France are : Two Nieuports, both with 300 h.p. Hispano-Suiza engines, one machine ' % , i-<-„;;1'' " . '-\ - •:'-'.T'"'^r • : -:': ' ^^B V\E H^ m THE AVRO-PUMA [SCHNEIDER SEAPLANE: Preparing the machine for a trial flight. Capt. Hamersley, M.C., who will pilot the machine in the race In the cockpit is Il80
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