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* Tom Campbell Black, who with C. W. A. Scott won the MacRobertson London to Melbourne Air Race in 1934 ;
The Mollisons also flew in record time from Britain to India in 1934 in a de Havilland DH. 88 Comet as part of the Britain to Australia MacRobertson Air Race.
In 1934, he purchased a Lockheed Altair, the Lady Southern Cross, with the intention of competing in the MacRobertson Air Race.
Known by her friends as " Jackie ," and maintaining the Cochran name, she flew in the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934.
* MacRobertson Miller Airlines, a Western Australian airline that operated from 1934 into the 1980s
In 1934, Mildenhall was the start point of the MacRobertson Air Race to Melbourne, in Australia.
Boeing 247D in its MacRobertson Race markings, c. 1934.
As the 247 emerged from its test and development phase, the company further showcased its capabilities by entering a long-distance air race in 1934, the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia.
Originally flown on September 5, 1934, it was leased from United Airlines for the 1934 MacRobertson Race and returned to United where it served in regular airline service until 1937.
It is displayed today with two sets of markings, the left side is marked as NR257Y, in Colonel Turner's 1934 MacRobertson Race colors, while the right side is painted in United Airlines livery, as NC13369.
Charleville was also one of the compulsory stop over / check points during the London to Melbourne MacRobertson Air Race in 1934.
The MacRobertson Trophy Air Race ( also known as the London to Melbourne Air Race ) took place October, 1934 as part of the Melbourne Centenary celebrations.
MacRobertson Air Race poster, 1934
RAF Mildenhall's premature inauguration was due in large part with its selection to host the Royal Aero Club's prestigious MacRobertson Air Race on 20 October 1934.
In 1931 Curtiss marketed the brand by sponsoring famous air racer, John H. Livingston, in the Baby Ruth Aerobatic Team flying the air-racer Howard " Mike " at airshows, and sponsoring Livingston's Monocoupe racer in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race.
One of the Pilots in the display was Flying officer C. W. A. Scott who later became famous for breaking three England Australia solo flight records and winning the MacRobertson Air Race with co-pilot Tom Campbell Black in 1934.
In 1934, he participated in the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia, this time teamed with Geoff Hemsworth, flying a Fairey Fox.
16 kilometers south of Rutbah ( Rutbah Wells, in 1934 ), the famous aircraft " Uiver ", a winner of the MacRobertson Air Race, a DC-2 type from the KLM, ( now known as Air France-KLM ), crashed there on its first flight after the MacRobertson Air Race in December 1934, on its way to the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ).
In 1934, Campbell Black and C. W. A. Scott were entered in the London to Melbourne Air Race, officially known as the " MacRobertson Air Race ".
* The MacRobertson Air Race, 1934

1934 and Air
The Air Ministry asked British scientists in 1934 to investigate the possibility of propagating electromagnetic energy and the likely effect.
* Supermarine Type 224 ( 1934 ) unsuccessful design for a fighter aircraft to Air Ministry specification F. 7 / 30
In 1934, the Air Ministry set up a committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK.
* L ' Air de l ' eau, 1934 – Looks Like Water
However, the situation changed in 1934 when the Army Air Force was given a government contract to fly the postal mail.
In September 1935, Earhart and Mantz formally established a business partnership they had been considering since late 1934 by creating the short-lived Earhart-Mantz Flying School which Mantz controlled and operated through his aviation company, United Air Services, located at the Burbank Airport about five miles from Earhart's Toluca Lake home.
In 1930, Keys changed the company's name to Eastern Air Transport, soon to be known as Eastern Air Lines after being purchased by General Motors and experiencing a change in corporate leadership brought on by the Airmail Act of 1934.
* On 19 May 1934, a Wibault 280 of Air France crash-landed on a cricket pitch adjacent to Croydon Airport due to running out of fuel.
* On 31 May 1934 an Air France aircraft carrying newspapers to Paris crashed after hitting the mast of an aircraft radio navigation beacon that had been erected off the end of the white-line takeoff path, killing the two crew.
* Chart of Croydon Airport from The Air Pilot, published by Air Ministry, London, 1934.
In 1934 he underwent a brief period of pilot training with the Royal Air Force but this was not successful, and by 1935 he was living in London, where he married his first wife, Elizabeth Jones, in 1936.
In 1934, Colonel Hap Arnold assigned an Army Air Corps officer to survey a area of the California desert in order to establish the Muroc remote bombing range.
Major Moody earned his military wings in 1930 and flew U. S. airmail as a member of the United States Army Air Corps in 1934.
In 1934, the Army Air Corps saw the need for another airfield in Hawaii when Luke Field on Ford Island became too congested for both air operations and operation of the Hawaiian Air Depot.
After Pan Am acquired the New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line it shifted most of its operations to the Dinner Key seaplane base, leaving Pan Am Field largely unused until Eastern Air Lines began flying there in 1934, followed by National Airlines in 1937.
In 1934, Western Air Express was severed from TWA and briefly changed its name to General Air Lines, returning to the name Western Air Express after several months.
* Thunder in the Air ( 1934 )
Upon his return to Japan, he was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and eventually rose to the rank of major general, having successively served as commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade ( 1930 – 1934 ), the IJA 4th Division ( 1934 – 1937 ), and after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ( 1937 – 1938 ), and the IJA 2nd Army stationed in China from 1938 – 1939.

1934 and Race
Earhart was a vigorous advocate for female pilots and when the 1934 Bendix Trophy Race banned women, she openly refused to fly screen actress Mary Pickford to Cleveland to open the races.
In 1934 the Narragansett Race Track opened for Thoroughbred horse racing.
* “ Claim Will Rogers Is Free To Insult Race Under Agreement .” Kansas City ( MO ) Plaindealer, February 2, 1934, p. 2.
* 75th Anniversary of the Great Air Race October 1934 Tom Campbell Black
Anniversary of the Great Air Race October 1934 Tom Campbell Black
His two main writings were Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der nordischen Rasse ( 1928 ) and Neuadel aus Blut und Boden ( 1934 ), translated into English as " The Peasantry as Life Source of the Nordic Race " and " A New Nobility of Blood and Soil " respectively.
* Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese-American Crisis: An Account of the International Complications Arising from the Race Problems on the Pacific Coast ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1934 ).
The Race Eugenic Protection Law was submitted from 1934 to 1938 to the Diet.
In March 1934 the new Shanghai Race Club building opened.

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