SPEED IN THE AIR

* * * SPEED IN THE AIR

Sir, In your report of the Daily Express

Air Display at Hendon you enquired why the Miles Hawk Speed Six weighing only 1,850 lb. should be only 15 m.p.h. faster than the 8,250 lb. Percival Vega Gull. The answer lies in the inaccuracy of the notices displayed in front of the aircraft—I saw more than a dozen errors. In fact, the usual average speed for a

Vega Gull over a closed circuit course is in the region of 155 m.p.h., while the Hawk Speed Six won the recent Bristol Air Race at very nearly 200 m.p.h. I am, Yours, etc.,

Windsor. DAVID F. OGILVY. * * *