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...England had to do was let a sea- plane dawdle seven times around the 32-mi. triangle at Calshot to take permanent possession of the Schneider Trophy last week, since Italy and France withdrew from the race (TIME, Sept. 14). But everyone knew the British flyers would try to better the winning speed of 1929 (328.6 m. p. h.), and the straightaway record (357.7 m. p. h.) made a week later by Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar...
Flight Lieut. J. H. Boothman was given the honor of formally winning permanent possession of the Schneider Trophy. In a mosquito-like seaplane of blue & silver designated Super marine Rolls-Royce S-6B, he darted over the Solent at about 300 ft. altitude, taking wide turns at the corners of the course to guard against disqualification. His first two laps were the fastest, averaging 342.9 m. p. h. When he crossed the finish line and shot his plane skyward, to lose speed for a landing, his average time for the race...
...speck with a tail of smoke. When it was over the stopwatches showed an average of 379.05 m. p. h. On one lap Lieut. Stainforth's time had been 388.6, faster than man had ever flown, more than eight times faster than the winner of the first Schneider race...
Plans for the Schneider Cup Races at Calshot, England, were complete, down to a regulation which prohibited small boys from flying kites in the vicinity of the course above the Solent. Then there occurred, last week, the culminating blow in a series of misfortunes which had led up to this year's contest. Italy and France, the two nations who were to challenge England's possession of the Cup, announced that they would be unable to participate in the races unless they were postponed for six months. Both gave as reasons bad weather, ill luck and loss...
...total collapse of the Schneider Cup Races was a disappointment to everyone concerned, it was particularly disappointing to the eccentric elderly lady who is reputed to be the richest woman in England, Lady Houston, widow of the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston. When Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald last winter announced that England did not have enough money to enter a team to defend the Schneider Trophy, Lady Houston found the situation unbearable. Although she had been enraged when the Government demanded an $8,000,000 inheritance tax on her husband's estate, she swallowed her pride and said...