GLIDING RECORD
Own Correspondent-
Looped the Loop 67, Times
— By Air Mail.
LONDON, April 28. Sixty-seven successive loops of the loop in a motorless glider is the strange new world air record claimed by Flight Lieutenant E- Mole, British gliding expert. He took off from Heliopolis, Egypt, yesterday in a German-built glider towed by an R.A.F. 'plane. At 8,000 feet the glider was releasedAfter his return to earth with the sealed barograph recording his loops, the aviator said: "I was very giddy, and was anxious about the prawik mayonnaise I had for lunch.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4
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