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In 4 days from London to Melbourne

The Australian state Victoria celebrates her centenial celebrations with an airrace from Londen to Melbourne in 1934.

Sixtyfour teams subscribe for the race, only 20 reach the starting line. One of these planes is the revolutionairy Douglas DC-2 Uiver, entered by the KLM; The Royal Dutch Airlines. Albert Plesman, founder of the KLM, doesn't aim at winning the race; he wants to show that the Dutch are capabel to sustain the longest airline service on earth.

The KLM crew: Parmentier, Moll, Prins and Van Brugge, have to compete with racing devils in speedmonsters. Only the KLM can fly an 'ordinary' airline service, with passengers and mail.

The racing devils exceed the boundaries of human endurance. The KLM passengers and crew arrive in top shape, they haven't missed a meal! Aided by trained groundcrews along the route, the KLM team acheaves a second place in the speedrace, and a first place in the handicaprace. And all of this inspite of an succesfull emergency landing at the Albury racetrack in the dark, lit by the headlights of motor cars , just 250 km from the finish line. The whole world kept it's breath.

The enthousiasm for the Uiver's succes is not yet over. The Dutch Air Museum Aviodome tried everything to change the last airworthy DC2 into a real Uiver. They did a splendid job and succeeded to bring her to Holland.

With a sponsorflight past Dutch airfields, the Uiver attracted a lot of attention. The Uiver never left the hearts of the Dutch People.