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1934
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OCTOBER 25, 1934. FLIGHT. 1109 op HISTORY C W. A. Scott and T. Campbell Black—Winners of the World's Greatest Race IF Jules Verne, who at the end of last century wrote " Round the World in Eighty Days,"could have foreseen such an achievement as this ... a journey half-way round the world in underthree days ! Yet this is the magnificent achievement of Charles William Anderson Scott and Thomas Campbell Black and the aeroplane entered for them in the England-Australia Race by Mr. A. O. Edwards—the De Havilland " Comet " with two Gipsy Six engines. By their achievement in winning the Speed Race they secure Sir MacPherson Robertson's Trophy and cash prize of £10,000 (£7,500 in Australian currency). • Scott, who has a wife and little daughter, is only thirty years old, but three times before' fhe Race he had beaten the record between England and Australia—twice in 1931 and once during the following year. He was educated at Westminster School and joined the R.A.F. in 1922. At one time he served with No. 32 (F.) Squadron and acquired a reputation as an aerobatic pilot. As a com- merciaJ pilot in Australia he frequently made long air taxi flights, perhaps the best known being a 4,000-mile trip across Central Australia. Campbell Black served during the War in the R.N.A.S. and the R.A.F. During his career as a pilot in Africa he flew H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who was on a big game hunt. He has flown between London and Nairobi thirteen times, and in 1932 reached the latter town from Croydon a distance of 5,000 miles—in eight days. In 1931 he rescued Herr Ernst Udet, the German pilot, who was stranded on an island in the Upper Nile. Black is now personal pilot to Viscount Furness. A description of the winning D.H. " Comet " will be found elsewhere in this issue.
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