细节
De Havilland DH88 Comet Racer G-ACSS,
the DH88 Comet having been designed and built in nine months to meet the challenge of Australian philanthropist Sir MacPherson Robertson who offered $15,000 prize money for the winner of an England to Australia race in 1934, G-ACSS winning in the hands of Scott and Campbell Black while painted red and named "Grosvenor House"; this model is in the later pale blue livery and named "The Burberry" as flown in late 1937 on a record breaking flight from Croyden to the Cape and back by Clouston and Mrs Kirby Green; exhibited at the 1990 Model Engineer Exhibition where it won a Silver Medal -- Wing Span 14in. (37.5cm.)
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the DH88 Comet having been designed and built in nine months to meet the challenge of Australian philanthropist Sir MacPherson Robertson who offered $15,000 prize money for the winner of an England to Australia race in 1934, G-ACSS winning in the hands of Scott and Campbell Black while painted red and named "Grosvenor House"; this model is in the later pale blue livery and named "The Burberry" as flown in late 1937 on a record breaking flight from Croyden to the Cape and back by Clouston and Mrs Kirby Green; exhibited at the 1990 Model Engineer Exhibition where it won a Silver Medal -- Wing Span 14in. (37.5cm.)
See Colour Illustration