Schneider Trophy

/ ˈʃnaɪdə /

noun

1. a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931

Example Sentences

Innovations from Formula One found their way into road cars, and the pre-Second World War Schneider Trophy seaplane races helped in the design of the Spitfire.

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It was the 75th Anniversary dinner of the Schneider Trophy, back in 2006, where the idea of Bloodhound as an "Engineering Adventure" was born.

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The Rolls-Royce Type R engine, from the Schneider Trophy air race programme, gave him 2,300hp to play with.

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This broke the record set by his team earlier that year during a competition for the Schneider Trophy, in five races around the waters of the Solent, in the UK, watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

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The Schneider trophy was crucial to the defeat of Germany, says pilot John Russell.

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