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1926
1926 - 0711.PDF
SEPTEMBER 30, 1926 each club, and was arranged in the following manner. Two machines took part in each heat, being placed on a line marked out on the aerodrome. The two pilots started from another line 50 yards behind the first one, and each pilot had to run this distance to his machine, fly a given circuit and land on the original starting line, running from there back to the other line, where the second pilot was waiting to take over the message. The second pilot then had to run to the machine, take off and make his circuit, and the previous proceedings were then repeated. If a pilot overshot the mark, he and his partner had to wheel the machine back to the original starting line, taxying on the ground not being permitted. The four clubs and their teams taking part in this race were as follows :—The Yorkshire Aero Club : R. W. Kenworthy, H. S. Carter, E. B. Fielden and H. S. Norway. The Lancashire Aero Club: J. J. Scholes, T. N. Stack, A. Goodfellow and B. Leete. The Newcastle Aero Club : P. F. Heppell, F. H. Phillips, E. B. Ellis and H. L. B. Dixon. The London Aero Club : Major K. M. Beaumont, D.S.O., W. Hay, C. H. Craig and F. G. M. Sparks. This event was watched with great amusement, and quite early in the proceedings the Newcastle Club became favourites by the keenness with which they tackled the job, two of their pilots doing their sprinting and flying their circuits in shirt- sleeves. In coming in to land, too, the Newcastle Club appeared to score, in that several of the Newcastle pilots on G-EBLX made quite amazing side-slip landings. Incidentally, this event gave a very good demonstration of the sturdy con- struction of the De H. " Moth," the machines being landed time after time on the right-wing tip, which frequently could be seen to bend slightly upon touching the grass, but appa- rently without any ill-effects whatever. In the final the Newcastle Club scored an easy and certainly well-deserved victory, thus winning the first prize of four engraved silver tankards presented by Mr. Sawley Brown. Before the start of Event No. 4, the Avro " Avian " was very thoroughly filmed, Hinkler piloting the " Avian," and Flying Officer Waghorn the Avro " Gosport." The big event of the meeting was No. 4, an Open Handicap Race for which no less than 18 machines had been entered. Unfortunately, some of the entries were prevented from taking part in the race, but 10 machines toed the line and got away in the following order :—Two De H. " Moths," G-EBLS piloted by R. W. Kenworthy, of the Yorkshire Aero Club, and G-EBLR piloted by M. Lacayo of the Lancashire Aero Club, startedj^as limit men, followed by T. N. Stack, on The new Avro " Alpha " engine. [" FLIGHT " Photographs. AN AVRO GROUP AT THE LANCASHIRE AIR PAGEANT : Left to right—Mr. Bert Hinkler, Mr. A. W.Hubble, Mr. R. J. Parrott/FIying Officer H. R. D. Waghorn (winner of the open handicap), Mr. R. H. Dobson, and Mr. John Lord. 635 D
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