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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 BRITISH RACES AND ATLANTIC FLIGHTS T-iE photograph numbered 1shows aeroplanes lined up:for the start of the Aerial Derby in 1922. In front may. be seen the Gloster Bamel. No. 2 gives Flight-Lieut. Jones in a Siskin doing the fastest time in, the King's Cup Race of 1924. No. 3 shows the winner of that race, A. J. Cobham in a D.H.50. No. 4 is the finish of the King's Cup in 1927, won by L. Hope in a Moth. No. 5 shows the same pilot in another Moth winning the King's Cup in 1928 at Brooklands. In 1929 the sequence of Moth victories was, shall we say, inter- rupted by the victory of a two-seater Grebe, shown in No. 6, which was piloted by Flying Officer Atcherley, with Flight-Lieut. Stainforth as navigator. Each has since become famous as the breaker of a world's air speed record. : The middle photo- graph shows the crowd which welcomed the return of Hawker and Mackenzie Grieve, the first men who tried to fly the Atlantic. They were forced to come down in the ocean, and were rescued by a Danish ship. Down below we sec the return to London oi Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Wh'itten-Brown after making the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic from New- foundland to Ireland. 64 FLIGHT Photos.
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