An airports system for United Kingdom air services
1972; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 76; Issue: 737 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0001924000043074
ISSN2059-6464
Autores Tópico(s)Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
ResumoForty years ago Flight Lieutenant John Nelson Boothman, AFC, RAF, won the Schneider Trophy outright for the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, flying a Vickers-Supermarine S-6B (S.I595) on Sunday 13th September 1931. “The better the day the better the deed.” To some, that win at 340.8 mph over a 270 mile course seemed the end of an era and the climax of the careers of both Reginald Mitchell, and of Henry Royce, the designers of the S-6B and of its 2300 bhp Rolls-Royce “R” engine. In the event, as history has unfolded, the winning of the Schneider Trophy was but the opening page of a more significant story—the evolution of Mitchell's Spitfire, of Camm's Hurricane and of their Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. Those later Schneider Contests—from 1927 to 1931—led directly to the winning of the Battle of Britain in 1940—and to our presence here in a free world tonight.
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