The Power and the Glory

摘要

Cramming 1,900 h.p. into a 30ft seaplane, against the clock, to win 1929's Schneider Trophy race required sheer technical brilliance, as CHRISTOPHER STARR explains.rnIt was 80 years ago last September that the small, sleek and powerful Super-marine S.6 seaplane cast off into the treacherous waters of the Solent atrnCalshol, Southampton. With a burst of spray it roared into the sky and proceeded to redefine the future of British aviation.