London - Christchurch Air Race of 1953

[PRB]

I ordered this book from Amazon about the London-Christchurch air race of 1953. There wasn't any image of the book's cover or even a description of the book, but it was the only one I found on the entire Interweb on this race, so I ordered it. Then I found this image which may be the cover, and this indicates that it may be more of a picture book than a history of the event. I can find almost nothing about this race from Google, except who won, and that it sort of followed the 1934 London-Melbourne race format - speed class and handicap class. Still looking for more info on this event...

[Willy]

Paul, any idea of what the mandatory stops were if any?? We know it ended in Christchurch. What London airport was the start? In between the two?? And I just noticed the yellow bits on the cover. I bet that could be a clue (feeling a bit slow about that one)

I've got a F-80 that needs to stretch it's wings a bit.

[fabulousfour]

I guess that you have found the wikipedia article about the race.

Here is an article about the DC-6 from KLM that participated in the race.

But I guess, the next link beats both.

Here you can read a contemporary article about that race, re-published in the "The Canberra Times" in 1991.

Have fun.

[PRB]

Paul, any idea of what the mandatory stops were if any?? We know it ended in Christchurch. What London airport was the start? In between the two?? And I just noticed the yellow bits on the cover. I bet that could be a clue (feeling a bit slow about that one)

I've got a F-80 that needs to stretch it's wings a bit.

None. But, I found this pic which may provide clues. I see filled in circles and open circles. I would guess the filled in circles would indicate mandatory stops, if there were any in that race.

[PRB]

I guess that you have found the wikipedia article about the race.

Here is an article about the DC-6 from KLM that participated in the race.

But I guess, the next link beats both.

Here you can read a contemporary article about that race, re-published in the "The Canberra Times" in 1991.

Have fun.

Thanks FF. I missed one of those links!

[Ferry_vO]

The Air Atlantique DC-6 flew in the KLM race colours for a while, for the movie 'Bride flight':