1911-1914: Circuit of Britain Air Race

Posted By Roger Codger on Apr 26, 2011 |

An early air race organised by the Daily Mail newspaper in England.

Here is some movie footage…

Daily Mail – 1913

“The first prize is the sum of £5,000 to the first person who shall
pilot a waterplane of entirely British invention and construction
round England, Scotland, and Wales—and, so far as Ireland is
-concerned, within one mile of Kingstown Harbour—in seventy-two
continuous hours, starting and finishing at a point to be agreed upon
near the mouth of the Thames.”

Ref: Flight, April 5, 1913

References

Circuit of Britain Air Race (Wiki.)