AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 1

AVIATION

AMAZING FEATS

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK. Feb. 2.1. Martin Jensen, world’s solo endurance flyer, and second- prize winner in the Hawaiian flight, amazed beholders by flying backwards upsidoi down. He used a biplane of one hundred horse power. After looping the loop, Jensen (lipped his plane upside down and flaw with a forty miles gale at Hie tail. Then, righting the plane, he headed into the wind, and turning upside down, the throttled eng'ne nearly stalling, the speed being thirty miles an hour. A forty miles head wind carried him backwards about ton miles an hour. The trick was done with the nose of the piano elevated.

THE WORLD’S RECORDS. GERMANY HOLDS MOST. LONDON. Feh. 2-1. 'Phe International Aeronautical Federation lias officially recognised 80 world’s air records, of which (formally holds thirty-three. France twenty-two. the United States seventeen. England eight. Switzerland three and Daly and ("zeoho-Slovakin one each. Despite England’s small total, it includes throe f most important ones for speed, soaDplanes, and varying distances.