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1923
1923 - 0470.PDF
AUGUST 9, 192? RUNNING-UP THE SOPWITH-HAWKER-JUPITER FOR THE AERIAL DERBY ; speed machine appeared exclusively in " Flight " last week. A front view of this ne»v In the enclosures one heard some very complimentary tiingsraid both about the machine and about its pilot, and certainly Ihe show put up by these two officers was worth the whole ofthe entrance fee charged for admission. At 3.33 Raynham crossed the line on his yellow Martinsyde wait of nearly 7 mins , when two machines hove in sieht, theleading one of which proved to be Longton on the Sopwith- Hawker, who was followed across the line about. 2 mi us. laterby Carter on the " Gloster," both machines " going strong." THE AERIAL DERBY: The Sopwith-Hawker machine gets away. This 400 h.p. Jupiter-engined'plane, pilotedby Flight Lieut. W. H. Longton, was the second fastest over the course. F.6, followed 30 sees, later by Perry on Colonel Darby'sD.H.9 A. One minute later Major Hemming came along on D.H.37, but of Courtney there was not a sign. Later on itwas learned that he had come down at Brooklands. Barnard crossed the line at 3.43.34, and tfcen there was a People now settled down to waLt for half-an-hour or sountil the Derby machines should begin to come in, and in the meantime the Service Bristol Fighters had begun to gooff at two minutes interval. This form of starting did not prove wildly exciting, and the visitors were more interested in Mr. H. H. Perry, who on the D.H.9a (350 h.p. R.R.) secured third place in the Aerial Derby Handicap, getting away. 470
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