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1938
1938 - 1926.PDF
FLIGHT. JULY 7, 1938. The winning Percival Mew Gull ; and its pilot, Ales Henshaw, who is receiving the King's Cup from Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air. THE FASTEST KING'S CUP Alex Henshazv Wins at 236.25 m.p.h. After Covering 1,012 Miles in 4 hr. 16 min. 59 sec. with his Special Mew Gull : Giles Guthrie (Mew Gull) Second at 220.5 w-P-h- Illustrated with " Flight " Photographs) FOR the second year in succession the King's Cup win has been the always popular one by a really fast back marker and, in this case, by a pilot who has been trying very hard for several years. Even after the first two or three laps of the twenty- lap course it was realised by the more ardent wielders of slide rules that, barring trouble, Alex Henshaw's specially modified Mew Gull was beat ing its handicap speed by a greater proportionate margin than any other machine in the race. And, in fact, he jumped right up into first place an entire lap before the finish, to win with a lead of nearly nine minutes from the second man home, Giles Guthrie, in the very Mew Gull with which Charles Gardner had won last year's event. The winner's speed was 236.25 m.p.h., which is the fastest at which any King's Cup race has been won and was only z\ m.p.h. slower than the record for any of the many differ ent courses which have been used. In the final last year Capt. Percival aver aged 238.7 m.p.h. It is difficult enough to organise any air race so that it shall have an appre ciable popular appeal, but this year's course at least gave the public an oppor tunity of seeing a great deal of the machines, both in the air and on the ground, and the arrangement of the public enclosures was such that every body should have had quite a good view of the proceedings. Probably the denizens of the cheapest enclosure saw more than those of any other—which is as it should be if the general public is to be considered at all. Anyway, it was a fine, sunny day and the public could appreciate that.
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