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...finger-shaped Lake Garda on the Lombardy border one day last week Lieut. Neri climbed into his seaplane, flashed around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
From Rome last week issued a report that a Lieut. Neri of the Italian Air Force had streaked around Lake Garda in a seaplane at 463.26 m. p. h. Fastest speed heretofore recorded was 408.8 m. p. h. by Lieut. George H. Stainforth of Britain's Royal Air Force as an aftermath to last year's Schneider Trophy Race. Lieut. Neri's trial was unofficial...
...others: Giovanni Monti, killed three weeks ago at Lake Garda; Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, died of injuries after a test flight crash last May; Tomaso Dal Molin, killed testing a plane in 1930; Lieut. Bonnet killed training for the races in 1929; Capt. Giuseppe Motta, killed testing a plane for the 1929 races; Lieut. F.R. Buse whose plane crashed on the Potomac in 1928; Lieut. Kinkead who crashed on the Solent...
...Kaye Don, in his speedboat Miss England II: a new record of 110.223 m. p. h. at Lake Garda, Italy; surpassing the record of 103.49 m.p.h. which he made in Argentina last April...
...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...