Calshot

Picture this, September 13th, 1931, a stretch of calm water off the southern coast of England near a narrow spit of land called Calshot.

The crowd along the shore is enormous.

Hundreds of thousands of people, some of them having traveled from across the country for this.

Flight Lieutenant Sydney Webster won in Venice in September of 1927 at two hundred eighty-one miles per hour.

Britain had won, and more importantly, Britain had a designer who understood exactly why he had won and exactly what he was going to do next.

Two years later, at Calshot in 1929, Mitchell unveiled the S.6.

He had switched from the Napier Lion to a new Rolls-Royce engine called simply the R.

The R was making close to nineteen hundred horsepower.