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FLIGHT, n July 1952 47 Plan of the entrances and enclosures of Newcastle-upon- Tyne Airport, for the National Air Races, to be held today and tomorrow. 1. Airport Turning Pylon (from Stannington Aerodrome) .2. Air Race Headquarters 3. Air Traffic Control 4. Briefing Room 5. Competing Aircraft Park 6. Guests' Enclosure 7. Newcastle Aero Club 8. Press Office 9. Royal Aero Club Enclosure and Car Park 10. Restaurant—in Hangar (Members, Competitors and Officials only) 11. Servicing Area 12. VHF R.D/F Van 13. Visiting Aircraft Park 14. Visiting Pilots to report here 15. Hangar (Aircraft Weighing) 16. Hangar (Demonstration Aircraft Only) 17. Licensed Catering, St. John Ambulance and Enclosure Marshals NATIONAL AIR RACES Facts, Figures and Personalities NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Airport is the venue for the 1952 National Air Races, organized by the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom and sponsored by the Kemsley Flying Trust. The races take place on Friday and Saturday, July nth and 12th, and are supported by spectacular programmes of demonstrations. Scheduled for the first day are the races for the Grosvenor Challenge Cup, the Norton-Griffiths Challenge Trophy and the Kemsley Challenge Trophy, respectively for aircraft up to 1,653 lb, 1,654-2,205 lb, and over 2,205 lb- .A11 tb^ are international contests and they form eliminating heats for the King's Cup Race, to be held on the following day. As usual, the King's Cup Race is confined to British entrants and the field will consist of the first four such competitors to finish in each of the three races on the previous day—plus (or including) the four fastest machines in each of those events. This year certain changes have been made in the racing regulations. Thus, the Air League Challenge Cup is not now competed for in a race of that name. Instead, the Cup will be awarded, together with £100 prize-money, to the competitor achieving the fastest lap speed during the whole meeting. Aircraft originally entered for the Air League Race will now fly in the Kemsley Trophy event. On July nth the flying programme will last from 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. In addition to the three air races there will be control-line flying by model aircraft; a demonstration by a Bristol Sycamore 3 helicopter; aerobatics by Prince Cantacuzene in his Biicker Jungmeister; aerobatics by a Slingsby Sky sailplane; and "aerial gymnastics" and a para chute descent by Mr. Charles "Chuck" Thompson. On the The King's Cup, which is the premier award at Newcastle.
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