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1937
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JULY 29, 1937. FLIGHT. 123 ALL OUT ALONG, DOWN ALONG... Veteran Avro 504^ Wins Devon Air Race : 35,000 See Some Tripartite Aviation THE intrepid air racer who would catch out Handicappers Dancy and Rowarth must nowadays enter some really unlikely aircraft—say an Empire flying boat or a navigable balloon. Alternatively, he may produce a type which has not run the gauntlet of their slide-rule in years. And that is what the winner of last Saturday's Devon Air Race did. Capt. Percival Phillips, with one of the banner-towing Avro 504NS of Air Publicity, Ltd.—but with out the banners—successfully threw a spanner into the works of the official stop-watches, whose owners admitted that they couldn't remember en-' Capt. Percival Phillips and Mrs. Phillips in front of the victorious Lynx Avro countering a 504 in a race since 'way back in 1927. Mr. Whitney Straight, Lt.-Col. Louis Strange and their henchmen addressed themselves to a Herculean task in organising simultaneous air displays at the three of their airports, Plymouth (Roborough), Haldon (Teignmouth) and Exeter, which formed the corners of the triangular 77-mile course. A study of the operational schedule, with its split- second plans for pushing racing aero planes, demonstrating aeroplanes and a couple of R.A.F. formations round all three aerodromes in three hours or so, brought on slight vertigo in the re- portorial brain. Boggling slightly at this idea of being in three places at once, we confined our attention to Plymouth, the start and finish of the race. Proceedings began with demonstrations of, inter alia, the Dart Kitten (Mr. Alington), Aeronca (Mr. F. T. Lett) and Miles Whitney Straight (Mr. Gordon Marshall). At 2.30 p.m. three Saro Londons from Mount Batten put in a deep-throated appearance and showed themselves at The start: P. B. Elwell's Taylor Cub is seen getting away, and Alington's Dart Kitten is next in the line.
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