TH SPORT AFLOAT
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M R. GAR WOOD resembles Capt. Sir Malcolm Campbell in that he is never too old to have another cut at a coveted record.
Thus, on Friday, March 20th, at Indian Creek, Miami, Gar Wood regained for America the world's motor boat speed record with a mean speed over two runs of 102.156 m.p.h., and thus beat the record which the late Sir Henry Segrave set up in tragic...
THE SPORT A FLOAT
long Mr. Kaye Don will be taking out "Miss England II" for his attempt to raise the late Sir Henry Segrave's record, which stands
at 98.7 m.p.h. While he is preparing for this attempt at Buenos Aires, Mr. Gar Wood, who has for so many years been the leading exponent of speed on the water, is making preparations at Miami to wrest the record from Britain. His boat, "Miss America...
NEWS FROM THE U.S.A.
By our American Correspondent T. MERIWETHER-SMITH.
Ernie Triplett Injured.
ERNIE TRI PLET TT the brilliant Los Angeles racing star, won the Pacific Southwest Divisional A.A.A. Championship for both 1931 and 1932. This year Triplett held a magnificent lead for this honour over all contenders until the night of July 26th when he was the victim of a terrible crack-up on the...
THE NEW RECORD
GAR WOOD REGAINS IT WITH 111.7 M.P.H.
ON Friday, 5th February, the famous American pilot, Gar Wood, succeeded in winning back the water speed record. He had just previously reached a mean speed of 110.78, but this was not the required amount above Kaye Don's speed to rank as a record. However, the supercharged Packard engines had. proved satisfactory, and it was evident that Miss...
The World's Speed Record.
WH FA Miss England III went over to Lake Garda last month, everyone naturally hoped that Kaye Don would return to England with the world's speed record once again in his possession. Consequently, great disappointment was felt when the boat failed to live up to these expectations.
We are in a position to state, however, that the trip to Lake Garda was only in the nature...
(AYE DON THE MAN
BY J. WENTWORTH DAY. pOSSESSED of a speed demon at an early age, Kaye Don has created a special niche for himself as the only man in the world to exceed 120 m.p.h. on land, air and water. Starting with reliability trials before the war, and the Air Force during the Great Unpleasantness, he returned to trials (unfortunately termed " reliability races " by the author), thence by...
BRITAIN'S NEW RECORDS CAPT. G. E. T. EYSTON AND J. R. COBB ON LAND, AND SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL ON WATER
SELDOlvl in the history of the land speed record has so exciting a duel been waged as that which took place in Utah last month between Capt. G. E. T. Eyston and J. R. Cobb. Apart from the honour of holding the record itself-or rather, the record for the mile or kilometre, whichever happened to be...
HATS OFF TO GAR WOOD
COMMODORE GAR WOOD has once again demonstrated his uncanny knack of "putting it over." His "Miss America X achieved a mean speed of 124.91 m.p.h. over the measured mile, Gar Wood's success is no matter of luck. He is easily the world's finest speed boat pilot and is a first rate engineer, and designer. "Miss America" is entirely his own creation. The idea of having four...