FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1925
1925 - 0721.PDF
Wlfy NOVEMBER 5 1925 organise the contest for the following year. This was onceagain held at Monaco, over a closed circuit having a total distance of 150 sea miles (28 laps). At the start competitorshad to undergo a navigability test—taxying over the starting line, then rising and making a tour of the course with at leasttwo alightings on the water. Entries were officially received from Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland and U.S.A. held at Bournemouth on September 10, 1919. The coursewas a triangular one, starting and finishing off Bournemouth pier and with turning points at Swanage Bay and HengistburyHead respectively, the length of the course being 20 nautical miles. This time the total distance to be flown was 200nautical miles, so that competitors had to make ten laps of the course. The two competing machines in the 1914 Schneider Cup Contest: (Left) Mr. Howard Pixton's winning Sopwith seaplane, 100 h.p. Mono-Gnome, and (right) M. Burri's Franco-British flying-boat. The contest took place on April 20, and was won by theBritish entrant, Howard Pixton, who was piloting a Sopwith biplane, fitted with a 100 h.p. Gnome. He covered the coursein 2 hrs. 0 mins. 16 sees., or at an average speed of 139-7 k.p.h. (86-8 m.p.h.). The only other competitor to complete thecourse was Burri, on the F.B.A. flying-boat, representing Switzerland, who completed the course in 3 hrs. 24 mins.12 sees. Of the French team Espanet, on a Nieuport, retired on the sixteenth lap, Levasseur (on a similar machine) doinglikewise on the following circuit, while Garros, on a Morane, did not start. Lord Carbery, on a Deperdussin, representing The 1919 Schneider Cup contest was a somewhat painfulepisode from the sporting point of view. The Royal Aero Club had received a fair number of entries, representing GreatBritain, France and Italy. Three machines, and one reserve, were entered by Great Britain, viz. : Avro tractor seaplane(240 Siddeley "Puma"), pilot, Capt. H. A. Hamersley ; Fairey tractor seaplane (450 Napier " Lion "), pilot, Lieut.-Col. Vincent Nicholl; Sopwith tractor seaplane (450 Cosmos "Jupiter"), pilot, Harry Hawker; Supermarine "SeaLion " flying-boat (450 Napier " Lion "), pilot, Squad.-Comdr. B. D. Hobbs. France had three machines : two Nieuports THF THIRD SCHNEIDER CUP CONTEST, 1919: This contest, held at Bournemouth, was annulled,J SfTaneTS'fsavoia,above iwhich alone completed the full course, was not observed on one of the mark boats. Britain, completed one lap. America's two repre- sentatives, Weymann (Nieuport) and Thaw (Deperdussin) also failed to fly the course, while Stoeffler (Germany) crashed his machine the previous day. Then came the Great War, and further racing, for .the Schneider trophy was suspended until 1919. Great Britain having last won the trophy, the first post-war contest was organised by the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain, and was (300 Hispano-Suiza), piloted by Casale and Malard, and a Spad-Herbemont, piloted by Sadi Lecointe. Italy had one machine, a Savoia S.13 flying-boat (250 Isotta Fraschini), piloted by Janello. Little, we think, remains to be said regarding the actual contest. In the first place, fog—sometimes thick and some- times promising to clear off—prevailed throughout the day. Some of the competitors had mishaps, or were unable to get 721
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
