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...take this opportunity to call your attention to the fact that the Bellanca low-wing monoplane "The Dorothy" used by Captain Mollison was not purchased with the idea in mind" of entering it in the Johannesburg Air Race. The deposit on the aircraft was received on Sept. 10 and Captain Mollison arrived in the U. S. the latter part of September, first coming to our factory on the 28th. The Johannesburg Race started at dawn from London on Sept. 29. The delivery date given Captain Mollison when placing the order was October 15; our pilot tested the machine...
...feel that you will want to correct the impression erroneously given in the news item that the airplane was ordered specifically for the Johannesburg Race, and that it was unable to participate on account of late delivery...
Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
Last May, as his share in the projected British Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg, South Africa's Rockefeller offered $50,000 in prizes for a London-Johannesburg air race. Last week, as the Johannesburg Exhibition entered its third week, nine planes buzzed away from London after the prize money. Because of the rules, all nine started along the same route. Three presently dropped out because of minor troubles, one at Regensburg, Germany, one at Belgrade, one at Salonika, Greece. At Cairo, Flight Lieut. Tommy Rose, holder of the England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...