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1949
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JULY 28TH, 1949 FLIGHT 97- Background to the Races at Elmdon success. Tommy Rose came first on a Falcon, and Hawk Trainers took second and third places. Progress with high-speed private- owner types was again reflected in 1935 by C. E. Gardner's success with a Percival Vega Gull over the 12-lap 312-mile final course which followed a 612-mile eliminating race the pre- vious day. His second victory came the following year on a Mew Gull at over 230 m.p.h. A close second was 63-year-old Brig.-Gen. A. C. Lewin, flying a Miles Whitney Straight. It was his first attempt at air racing. Conditions during the 1937 race were particularly bumpy, and several pilots were injured in their cock- pits. The final pre-war race had an especially spectacular flavour. There were no elimina- tion trials and pilots flew 20 laps, each of some 50 miles, with a 40-min interval every five laps. The faster machines were thus lapping in less than 15 minutes. Alex Henshaw's winning Mew Gull was the same aircraft, slightly cleaned-up, that Charles Gardner had flown to victory in 1937. Among the pilots taking part were Geoffrey de Havilland, Bill Humble, H. J. ("Willie ") Wilson and E. W. Percival. Last held in 1935, when it was won by Lt.-Cdr. Phillips at 109 m.p.h. on a Moth, the Grosvenor Challenge Trophy Race had its origin in 1923. Its first winner was S/L. W. H. Longton, whose Sopwith Gnu completed the 400-mile course in just over 4^ hr. Competition for the S.B.A.C. Challenge Cup is this year confined to jet aircraft. The first race, however, was won by F/O. D. Bonham-Carter in 1927 in an Avro Avian, at an average speed of 96 m.p.h. round the 15-mile course. In Each of the eight races to be held at Elmdon this year will be flown round the 20-mile quadrilateral course shown above. Details of the events are given overleaf. 1 '•.••_.! • the last contest, held at Bristol in 1935, Lord Willoughby de Broke won on a B.A. Eagle at 133 m.p.h. Flying for the London Aeroplane Club, Miss Winifred Spooner was the first winner of the Siddleley Challenge Trophy. The race was held concurrently with the ig2? MARSTON GREENEnclosure. ( Tickets) TIGERS ISLANDEnclosvte. (Blue. to f\ &Cotes/vE \ , 'ltd.•actacy RoualAxo (Tub J^ndosuce. Visiting Aicccaft on'Public __ "Transport hsux. .-Coventry ELMDON 0. . SpO, .1000 . 1500. J c 7
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