The following account of the U.K.–New Zealand Air Race was given to an Institute meeting on 20 November 1953 by members of the Royal Air Force Race Team. The lecturers were Wing Commander L. M. Hodges, D.S.O., D.F.C, who commanded the R.A.F. flight, Squadron Leader R. Currie, A.F.C., chief navigator of the flight, who flew with Wing Commander Hodges, and Flight Lieutenant R. L. E. Burton, A.F.C., pilot of the Canberra which completed the course in the shortest time; the Chair was taken by Air Chief Marshal the Hon. Sir Ralph Cochrane, G.B.E., K.C.B., A.F.C.