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Last month a discontented Italian remained in Venice. His discontent arose from engine trouble which forced him out of the recent Schneider Cup races won by English Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster at 281 miles an hour. Discontented Major Mario di Bernardi tinkered with his engine. Last week he summoned a committee of the International Aeronautic Federation; flew. When he descended watches recorded he had traveled faster than man and his machines have ever traveled. Speed: 301.185 miles per hour...
...ships go by. At the Lido, Venice, Plight Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster, one of the British entrants for .the Schneider cup, broke all speed records with an average of 281.488 miles an hour. The best previous record, 246.496 miles an hour, was established last year by Major Mario de Bernardi, of the Italian air force, who wrested the cup from the U. S. at Hampton Roads...
...Varese, Italian air port, famed airman Major di Bernardi taxied out on the flying field in a huge, spick-and-span, new plane. A man-child of 11 climbed nervously into the passenger's cockpit, was securely strapped...
This small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...
Evidence upon this point was contained in a letter sent last week by II Duce at Rome to small Vittorio at Varese. There the Italian airplanes to be entered for the international Schneider Trophy are being groomed and conditioned by Italian flying Major Mario de Bernardi, winner of the Schneider cup last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Little Vittorio wanted to fly with the major, wrote to ask II Duce if he might, received the following reply...