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OCTOBER 8, 1925 THE SCHNEIDER CUP RACE British Crew Now in America BY now the British Schneider Cup team, which left London on September 26 in the Atlantic Transport Company's Minnewaska, has arrived in Baltimore and has taken up its headquarters at the Southern Hotel there. The machines are being unpacked and the pilots will soon begin practising over the actual Schneider Cup course. This week we are able to the excellent pictures which we publish this week were in existence at the time, but were thought by those responsible to be too good to be issued at the time, as they might have shown too much. By the courtesy of the Italian Air Attache, General Guidoni, we are also able this week to give the general arrangement SPAN 31-11 LENGTH... 27-4-" WING AREA...I75OSa.Fr. MACCHS M.33 CURTISS D.I2 ENGINE THE SCHNEIDER CUP RACE General arrangement drawings of the Macchi M.33.Curtiss D.12. The engine fitted is a publish full-page official photographs of the two British machines, which show admirably the characteristic features of the two types. These photographs are of excellent quality, and with reference to our criticism of certain official photo- graphs issued some time ago, we now learn that the photo- graphic department was scarcely to blame in the matter, as drawings of the Italian challenger, the Macchi M.33 mono- plane with Curtiss D.12 engine. This machine is slightly larger than the two British challengers, notably in the matter of wing span, which exceeds our smallest machine by more than 10 ft. At the same time, the design is a very clean one, and the Macchi should give a good account of itself. THE FASTEST TWO-SEATER IN THE WORLD : The Fairey " Fox," fitted with Fairey " Felix " engine, shown in this photograph, is a high-performance two-seater day-bomber. Originally designed by the Fairey Aviation Co. as an entirely independent venture, the machine has now been ordered by the Air Ministry for the Royal Air Force, and is claimed to be the fastest two-seater in the world. 654
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