1 OCTOBER 1927, Page 3

The Schneider contest for seaplanes at the Lido on Monday

was between nations rather than between private persons. The resources of Great Britain and Italy were behind their representatives. Great Britain was determined to win from Italy the prize which Italy had won from the United States in the previous year, and she did so with remarkable decisiveness. Not one of the three Italian competitors finished the course, but two British machines finished it, and the winner, Flight- Lieutenant Webster, achieved the extraordinary speed of 281 miles an hour. That was 85 miles an hour faster than the speed of the Italian winner last year. Great Britain was transparently right in relying upon design even more than upon engine power.

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