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1932
1932 - 0827.PDF
FLIGHT, AUGUST 19, 1932 MHN5£ K HMf 9 VEIGHED AND NOT FOUND WANTING: A Plan View of Miss Spooner's Breda 33 (" Gipsy III " engine). !VIiss Spooner herself may (or may not) be recognised near the starboard wing. SOME OF THE FOREIGN COMPETITORS: In the fore ground the French machines, Guerchais, Potez, Farman and Caudron. INTERNATIONAL TOURING COMPETITION OUT of a total of 67 aircraft entered, 43 were ready at the Staaken aerodrome, Berlin, to commence the technical tests which precede the Circuit of Europe in the International Touring Competition for light aeroplanes. Germany having won this competi tion last year, the German Aero Club is organising this year's contest, and the technical tests, and start and finish of the Circuit of Europe, take place in Berlin. A number of nations are represented in the International Touring Competition, the following countries and the number of machines representing them being as follows: — Germany, 16; France, 8; Italy, 8; Poland, 5; Czecho slovakia, 4; and Switzerland, 2. Great Britain is not officially represented, as the maximum weight permitted by this year's regulations is below that of British light planes. There are, however, two unofficial British representatives in the competition, " Mr. John Carberry " and Miss Winifred Spooner. Mr. Carberry is flying a Klemm monoplane with de Havilland " Gipsy III " engine, and Miss Spooner is piloting a Breda 33, also with " Gipsy III " engine. But Mr. Car berry figures in the competition as a German competitor, and Miss Spooner has become, for the purpose of the tour, an Italian representative. Germany is represented by 6 Heinkel He. 64 monoplanes (Argus and Hirth engines); 7 Klemm K1.32 (Gipsy III, Argus, Siemens and Hirth engines); 1 Darmstadt D.22 (Argus); 1 Monocoupe 110 (Warner Scarab); and 1 Raab- Katzenstein (Argus). 771
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