1934 Air Race
John Beaderstadt
Bean wrote:
>
> Anyone have an interest in or have any good reference sources on the 1934
> London to Melbourne "Centenary Air Race"? Trying to get some more detail on
> the aircraft entered etc. Event was won by the famous DH88 Comet, with a
> DC2 winning the handicap.
Someone did a (TV?) movie about it, but I can'tremember any more than
that. I *think* it was a British production.
--
"The fortunate man knows how much he can safely leave to chance."
-- Lady Barbara Hornblower
Bean
Anyone have an interest in or have any good reference sources on the 1934
London to Melbourne "Centenary Air Race"? Trying to get some more detail on
the aircraft entered etc. Event was won by the famous DH88 Comet, with a
DC2 winning the handicap.
Regards, Ian
Tom Cervo
>that. I *think* it was a British production.
>
>
I'm pretty sure it was Australian. Nice bit about a couple of Aussies who
entered on a whim and flew an old Fairey IIId across Asia. The irony being that
the film had to use a Stearman, which looks and is about as fragile as a Mack
truck.
jea...@woodland.net
Ian:
Wings and Airpower magazines did a number of nice articles
on the MacRobertson Race and all of the entered planes and pilots.
I have the magazines, but will be too busy for the next week or two
to dig them out. There is of course a replica of G-ACSS flying in
the states, which I had the honor of sitting in. (Nothing is visible
in the front half of the world from that cockpit.)
John Eaton
jea...@woodland.net
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Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton
Tom Cervo wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure it was Australian. Nice bit about a couple of Aussies who
> entered on a whim and flew an old Fairey IIId across Asia. The irony being that
> the film had to use a Stearman, which looks and is about as fragile as a Mack
> truck.
The Fairey IIIs in any of there various incarnations weren't
particularly noted for fragility. Fairey's very early on realised that
shipboard operations didn't suit gossamer wings and there product was
pretty robust.
IIRC the IIIF - a close relative of the IIID was the first aircraft to
be built with the the long lived 12'/sec sink rate specified.
Aidrian
John Beaderstadt
Tom Cervo wrote:
>
> >Someone did a (TV?) movie about it, but I can'tremember any more than
> >that. I *think* it was a British production.
> >
> >
>
And the difference would be...? >-)
Tom Cervo
>I'm pretty sure it was Australian.
>
>And the difference would be...? >-)
>
>
You're about to find out . . . . Nomex underwear would come in handy about now
; )
sky9...@skynet.be
In article <01bd8677$9a2fdc60$b35a868b@vognuefu>,
"Bean" <Wren...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone have an interest in or have any good reference sources on the 1934
> London to Melbourne "Centenary Air Race"? Trying to get some more detail on
> the aircraft entered etc. Event was won by the famous DH88 Comet, with a
> DC2 winning the handicap.
>
>
The DC2 was PH-AKU, owned by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Besides winning the
handicap race it also came second in the speed race against the pure racing
twoseater DH88, but with pax. The participation was intended to demonstrate
the viability of long-range airline travel. Captain was Koene Dirk
Parmentier. In 1984 there was a memorial flight performed by another DC2,
painted like the original, flown by Captain Plesman, a grandson of KLM-s
famous founder Albert Plesman. I have made a few photographs of that aircraft
and will be happy to send you some GIF or JPG files to view. The 1934 event
was one of the stories that set me up for a lifetime of flying and love of
aeroplanes.
John Velenturf sky9...@skynet.be
Anders Bruun
There's a good book on the DH88 by David Ogilvy: "DH88 - The Story of de
Havillands' Racing Comets" (Airlife 1984). This of course contains a lot of
info about the DH88, but also some about the race in general and a complete
list of the entrants.
Regards,
Anders
IPMS(UK) Air Racing & Record Breaking Aircraft Special Interest Group
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