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10 OCT 07: DANIEL SCORES A DOUBLE

DANIEL Pangbourne won both of the trophies over the two-race weekend staged by the Royal Aero Club Records Racing and Rally Association (3Rs) at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, at the beginning of September.
Flying a Piper PA-28 - proving any aircraft can win the handicap races - Daniel won the 2007 Rolls-Royce Merlin Trophy and Schneider Trophy air races.

Whilst the Schneider Trophy has been raced for many years, the Rolls-Royce Merlin Trophy was presented for the first time this year. It was given to the 3Rs last year by Rolls-Royce to mark the 75th anniversary of the Royal Aero Club winning the Schneider Trophy outright in 1931.

The association decided to present the trophy to the winner of the Saturday qualifying race and thus maintain the link between the Schneider Trophy and the Merlin Engine, made of course by Rolls-Royce.
Second in the Merlin race was Jim Wesson in an Auster and third Roderick Moreton in a Slingsby Firefly. The Schneider Trophy race had Pete Earp in a Beech Baron second, and third was Rob Calloway Lewis in an Auster.
W: www.airraceuk.org.uk
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