GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1928, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.--Copyright.)

ROCKET PR OPELLOR, BERLIN, Alay S 3

When Herr Opel (inventor of the rocket propelling apparatus) took his seat in his car for the demonstiation, his head was just projecting. Under a roar like that of a broadside from a cruiser, tlie rocket shot like a flash, spitting tongues of fire from its rear, and it then disappeared in clouds of smoke and black flakes. Then the car shot forward at a speed of 112 miles an hour as each roar portended the explosion of a rocket. It was not an attempt to break the speed record, ’file idea was to demonstrate the successful application of the rocket principle, tho whole future of which is in the air, not on tho ground. To travel at a height of twenty miles at a speed of seven hundred miles per hour, and to accomplish tho circumnavigation of the earth in a day, are among Opcl’s concrete proposals.

Opel says that it will not he long before the nations will he competing for the development of rocket aviation. Two thousand spectators 'were thrilled and alarmed., Tlie President of the German Scientific Research Organisation said: “Wo arc perhaps standing at the turning point of world communication.”