London to Johannesburg Flown in Under 53 Hours Johannesburg, Oct, 1.
CW.A, Scott, Joint winner of the London-Melbourne air race, and his ce-pilot, Giles Guthrie, have won the Portsmouth-Johannesburg £10,000 alr derby, coming in first afler competi tors in two other machines, - who were ahead of them, had crashed, Scott and Guthrie brought their Vega-Gull down at the Germision aerodrome, the fishing point of the race, at 1236 this afternoon, Neither Scott nor Guthrie looked as travel-stained and fat: gued as recond-breakers generally are, 6,160 Miles in Under 53 Hours othe jsrmen, who have thus, won 4,000 prize for completing the Journey frst, covered 6154 miles in the offleal time of 82° hr. 65 min, 482 sec, their average specd being 123 miles an hour.
This was over nineteen hours leas than Mrs. Amy Johnson Molllso England-Cape record. If they de-elded to carry on, Scott and Guthrie would have had this margin in which to establish a new record, but they decided not to continue their ight, Although great crowds waited at the aerodrome all night long to greet the winners of the race, only 2,000 persons remained to cheer them' on. their arrival, the remainder having wheen driven' home by dust storms thrown up by a gusty wind, The aeroplane in which Scott and Guthrie won the race Is of the same type as the machine in which Mrs. Bary! Markham flew across the The plane ts a Percival Vega-Gull with @ 200-lip, Gipsy-Six engine. It Is one of the fastest aeroplanes for Power and load in existence, Edgar Percival, its designer, s also the designer of' the Mew-Gull. in which Captain Halse made such high speed in the first part of the race,
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