page_title: High Speed Flight RAF
section_title: 1929
hierarchical_section_title: High Speed Flight RAF / 1929
caption_attribution_description: British team, RAF High Speed Flight, for Schneider Trophy race in 1929 left to right: Fg Off HRD Waghorn Fg Off Moon (Engineering Officer) Flt Lt D D'Arcy A Greig Sqn Ldr AH Orlebar (Flight Commander) Flt Lt GH Stainforth Fg Off RLR Atcherley
context_page_description: The RAF High Speed Flight, sometimes known as 'The Flight', was a small flight of the Royal Air Force formed for the purpose of competing in the Schneider Trophy contest for racing seaplanes during the 1920s. The Flight was together only until the Trophy was won outright, after which it was disbanded.
context_section_description: The 1929 Trophy race was to be held at Cowes. With little money forthcoming from the Ministry aircraft and engine development had to be private ventures, with government money only being used to purchase the completed product. The costs of the 1927 and 1929 meetings was stated to be £196,000 and £220,000 respectively. Rolls-Royce had now developed the supercharged R engine, giving Supermarine's designer R.J. Mitchell far more power for his new S.6 than the naturally aspirated Napier Lion VIIB of the S.5. Gloster's first racing monoplane, the Gloster VI, had stayed with the Lion, but was also now supercharged as the Lion VIID.
  S.6 N247 came first, piloted by Waghorn, with Atcherley and N248 disqualified for cutting inside a turn.
  The Gloster VI had been withdrawn before the race, but Stainforth used it to set a new speed record the following day. A record which soon fell in turn to one of the S.6s.
caption: British team for the 1929 Schneider Trophy race. From left to right; Waghorn, Moon, Grieg, Orlebar, Stainforth and Atcherley
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