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...plane slid along the surface of the Solent until it was going about 200 m.p.h. It cleared the water for a second and then dropped back to it. A tower of spray shot up. The S-6 bounced 40 feet in the air and then plunged down into the Solent, nose first. When Lieut. Brinton's fellow officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock...
...that France and Italy enter no less than three planes each -which finally they did. Last week, to the incalculable embarrassment of the Royal Aero Club, the MacDonald Government announced it would provide no funds for the team or for the race, which was to be held over The Solent; nor would it allow Royal Air Force planes and pilots (the winners in 1929) to take part. Reason: The event does not justify spending the required $400,000 in these hard times. Result: The Aero Club and the civil aircraft industry face the whole task of raising the funds...
Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran...
Shrouded in mystery were the British planes and motors, entrants in last 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...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...