The King's Cup air race is a British handicapped cross-country event, which has taken place annually since 1922. It is run by the Royal Aero Club Records...
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Game King's Cup, Scrabble tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand King's Cup (air race), annual British handicapped cross-country air race King's Cup (golf)...
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Kendall. The film is named after the King's Cup air race, established by King George V in 1922 as an endurance race across Britain, to encourage development...
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Winifred Brown (section King's Cup air race)
aviator and author. She was the first woman to win the King's Cup air race (in 1930). The race has been running annually since 1922. Brown was born in...
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'heavier-than-air' air race was held on 23 May 1909 - the Prix de Lagatinerie, at the Port-Aviation airport south of Paris, France. Four pilots entered the race, two...
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of airworthiness in June 1930 and a week later took part in the King's Cup Air Race, but it dropped out with engine problems, which were common with...
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sportswoman and aviator. In 1930, she had been the first woman to win the King's Cup Air Race around England. Adams trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Stage...
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tuning the engine. G-AEKL won the Newcastle Race and the King's Cup that year. In the 1937 King's Cup air race, G-AEKL was 1st with Charles Gardner at the...
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English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the King's Cup air race Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), a painter from South Africa Winifred...
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"300SL". Crittenden Automotive Library. Retrieved 26 February 2017. "King's Cup Air Race Prizes". Flight. XXII (1126): 852. 23 July 1930. Retrieved 1 March...
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Schneider Trophy (redirect from Schneider race)
pilots taking part, the event became, along with the King's Cup air race, the highlight of the UK's air racing season, and regularly attracted entrants from...
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Gerry Sayer (category Royal Air Force officers)
the Hurricane on 6 November 1935). He also competed in the 1930 King's Cup Air Race, flying the Cirrus Hermes-powered Desoutter Mk.I (G-AAPY) entered...
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of the most notable. F. G. Miles decided to compete in the 1935 King’s Cup Air Race and the job of producing a suitable aircraft fell to Maxine, who...
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Luis Fontés (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
G-ADGP) in the prestigious King's Cup Air Race in 1935. On 6 October 1935, Fontés was taking part in an illegal road race on public roads while drunk...
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next example was purchased by Air Commodore James G. Weir, chairman of Cierva, and flown in the 1928 King's Cup Air Race before being used to make demonstration...
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wing girder. The Monospar ST-10 prototype (G-ACTS) won the 1934 King's Cup Air Race with an average speed of 134.16 mph. Only one other ST-10 was built...
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of the royal family. In the same year, the same aircraft won the King's Cup air race, flown by John Severne. G-APNZ is subject to a restoration at Derby...
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Castle Bromwich Aerodrome (category Royal Air Force stations in Warwickshire)
airfield was used as a staging point for the first round of the King's Cup air race. Air pageants were held in the 1920. In 1930 the first scheduled airmail...
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Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds...
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December 2014. "The Sixteenth King's Cup Race". Flight. XXXII (1499): 276. 16 September 1937. Retrieved 7 December 2014. "King's Cup Changes". Flight. XXXII...
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Frank George Gibbons (category Royal Air Force officers)
taking part in a 30-mile air race in his Spartan, and coming third. On 25 July 1931 Gibbons took part in the King's Cup Air Race for the second time, again...
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G-AMAU on 1 May 1950. It was flown into second place at the 1950 King's Cup Air Race by Group Captain Peter Townsend. At this time it was painted in Hawker...
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then fed to the engine by gravity. An Elf placed fifth in the 1930 King's Cup Air Race out of a field of 88 entrants. The purchase price of the aircraft...
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Harry Methuen Schofield (category Royal Naval Air Service personnel of World War I)
participated in the Schneider Trophy competition in 1927, and who won the King's Cup Air Race in 1934. Harry Schofield was born in Battersea, and educated at secondary...
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Thomas Rose (RAF officer) (category Royal Air Force officers)
with 11 victories. Better known as "Tommy" Rose, he also won the King's Cup Air Race in 1935 and from 1939 to 1945 was Chief Test Pilot with Phillips...
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Cirrus III, the prototype G-EBYU first flew in time to enter the King's Cup Air Race of 1928. The aircraft was flown to the Berlin Aero Show on 24 October...
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civil register as G-EBON and was flown in the 1919 King's Cup Air Race, the Plover retired from the race due to fuel flow problems. G-EBON crashed and was...
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Kingdom, the demonstrator was entered into the 1925 King's Cup Air Race but it crashed during the race in bad weather near Luton. The first aircraft to be...
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resident members. 5 July 1930: Winifred Brown, a club member, won the King's Cup Air Race hosted at Barton Aerodrome, flying an Avro Avian biplane built at...
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foreign royalty, diplomats, etc. On 5 July 1930, Hanworth hosted the King's Cup Air Race which was won by Winifred Brown in an Avro Avian. On 18 August 1931...
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