The King's Cup Competition London, July 13.
Fourteen aeroplanes started from Hendon this morning at handicap intervals on a circuit of Britain for the King's Cup. All sorts of machines are competing.
Mr. L. Carter, flying a Gloucestershire Grebe with a 325 h.p. Siddeley-Jaguar engine, starts scratch conceding the limit-man, Flight-Lieut. Langton, on a Sop-with Gnu with a 110 lip. Lo Rhone engine, 3 hr. 17 min. 30 sec. The machines will alight at controls at Birmingham and Newcastle and stay the night at Glasgow, returning to-morrow vid Manchester and Bristol.
Later.
Mr. Frank Courtney, in a Siddeley-Siskin with a 425 h.p. Siddeley-Jaguar engine, made the fastest time to Birmingham, namely, 32 min. 26 sec., travelling at an approximate speed of 180 miles per hour. He also made the fastest time from Birminghamt to Newcastle, 65 min. 55 sec., with a speed of approximately 155.6 miles an hour.
Later.
Courtney, who receives 36 sec. start from scratch, arrived first at Glasgow, followed by Carter and Alan Cobham, both on Dad's with 450 h.p. Napier- -Lion engines; Captain Broad, on a D59c with a 230 h.p, Siddeley-Puma engine: Major Hemming, on a D53s with a 275 lip. Rolls-Royce Falcon engine; Captain Baird, on a Super-Marine Sea Eagle with a 360 h.p. Rolls-Royce-Eagle IX engine; and Captain F. L. Barnard, last year's winner, on a D. 54a with a 350 h.p. Rolls-Royce-Eagle VIII engine.
The net flying times werd Courtney, 2 hr. 99 min. 12 sec. Carter, 2 hr. 32 min. 16 sec.; and Cobham 2 hr. 35 min. 11 sec.
Captain Oockerell retired at Birmingham, and Mr. F. Raynham retired at Leeds, with his machine damaged.
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