KINGS OF SPEED Issued by W.A. & A.C. CHURCHMAN Extracts from the album
				No. 9: CAPTAIN D.C.T. BENNETT An Australian, 28 years of age, Capt. D.C.T. Bennett is a Senior Master of Imperial Airways and one of 5 pilots to hold a 1st Class Navigator's Licence. He was pilot of the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the North Atlantic with a commercial load. This was in July, 1938, when he took the 4-engined seaplane Mercury, upper component of the Short-Mayo composite aircraft, from Foynes (Eire) to New York, with a re-fuelling halt at Montreal - 3,240 miles in 22 hrs. 31 mins. This flight also constituted the fastest east to west Atlantic crossing. In Oct., 1938, he flew Mercury from Dundee to Alexander Bay (South Africa), a distance of over 6,000 miles, thus establishing a long-distance record for seaplanes.
		No. 10: CAPTAIN G.J. POWELL In Aug., 1937, Capt, Grimth James Powell took the Imperial Airways flying-boat Cambria across the North Atlantic from Foynes (Eire) to Botwood (Newfoundland) - 2,000 miles, in the then record time of 14 hrs, 24 mins. In the following month he made the record crossing in the opposite direction in 10 hrs. 33 mins. Capt. Powell was born at Cardiff in Aug., 1907, and is one of the youngest Atlantic pilots. He joined the R.A.F. in 1926, resigning in 1930 to join Imperial Airways. He was the first British pilot to receive a master pilot's licence for both land and marine aircraft. In May, 1938, he was appointed operating manager of Imperial Airways service between Bermuda and New York.