AUSTRALIAN GLIDING RECORD
« Previous One Stood For Only Three Days Dr. Heydon, a lecturer at Sydney University, whose Australian gliding record of 99 miles, made on a Saturday, stood only till the following Tuesday, when Mr. Leu Schultz, a Royal Aero Club honorary instructor, sailplaned 101 miles, says gliding is a good introduction to learning to fly, because the landing speed is so much lower. The interior of Australia is considered the best gliding country in the world. Conditions, being anticyclonic and hot, cause strong up-currents of air'beneath the clouds. The gliders take advantage of these conditious by sail-planing across tjic wind from one cloud to another. •
Dr. Heydon is Australia’s oldest glider, being 58. His cross-country glide of 99 miles in live hours was done mostly between 6000 and 8000 ft. Mr. Schultz went up to 11,600 ft. and was 4J hours in tho air. Narromine was the starting point of the glides.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 10
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154AUSTRALIAN GLIDING RECORD Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 10
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