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...Calshot, England, where British speed pilots were preparing for the Schneider Cup races against Italy and France on Sept. 12, a young lieutenant last week climbed into the cockpit of the Supermarine S-6, which won the Schneider Cup two years ago. He was Lieut. Gerald Lewis Brinton. 26, youngest member of the British Schneider Cup team. It was his first flight...
Scudding grey clouds and squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept...
...coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago...
...autumn's Schneider Cup Race on the Solent (TIME, Sept. 16). Even after the Royal Air Force astounded the world by winning the race at 328 m. p. h. and later smashing all speed records by flying 357.7 m. p. h. on a three-kilometer closed course at Calshot, little was known of the Rolls-Royce engine used...
...Major A. Stuart MacLaren and two other British soldiers who left Calshot, England, March 25, in one plane, put a new machine into service at Akyab, India, and wrecked the latter by hitting a heavy sea when trying to avoid a small island in alighting near Nikolski Bay off Kamtchatka...