Schneider Trophy air races remembered in Southampton
Southampton's Solent Sky Museum has won a £50,000 Heritage Lottery Grant to develop an exhibition about the famous 1931 Schneider Trophy air races.
The races pitted British pilots against Italians, French and Americans in a bid to beat air speed records of the time.
About 500,000 people watched the 1931 event on the shores of Southampton Water.
It was won by a Supermarine S6B designed by RJ Mitchell, who went on to build the World War II Spitfire fighter.
