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Daisy. Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 27, was the "baby" of the British Schneider Trophy team of 1929, won the thunderous meet with a speed of 328 m.p.h. In the War he flew with the Royal Air Force, was once reprimanded for failing in a report to describe the nature of the ground where he had been forced down. Few days later he made another forced landing, rendered a florid description of the daisy field where it occurred. Henceforth his nickname was "Daisy." Last week, the day of the Kidston crash, "Daisy" Waghorn and Civilian E. R. D. Alexander...
...late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor of the first practical television apparatus...
King's Cup. Some 20,000 persons crowded about Hanworth aerodrome near London last week, waiting to cheer the winner of the King's Cup race around England. Most expected to see famed Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, last year's Schneider Cup winner, or Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar, speed record holder, drop out of the sky ahead of the other 87 planes. Others hoped to salute Prince George's Hawk Moth, or the Prince of Wales's Tomtit, as winner of their father's trophy...
...free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...
Over the Solent spithead, thread of English Channel between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, three Englishmen and three Italians raced for a new world's air speed record last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show...