A MOTORLESS AEROPLANE
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT,
For a long time a prize of 10,000 francs has been offered in France to the first aviator who, on an aeroplane without a motor, succeeded in leaving the ground for a flight of 10 yards. Hitherto the experiments had come to nothing, but now the champion, Gabriel Poulain, after several trials, has reached a distance of over 12 yards, at a height of 4ft. He has thus Avon the prize equal to about £4OO. Poulain’s machine is an ordinary safety bicycle with two planes. The under-plane, Avhich carries the bicycle, has a surface of 15 yds. square. When the pilot gets up a sufficient speed he _ unfastens the chain of the bicycle, and the top wing bends down behind. Poulain succeeded many times in raising up the machine AA'ithout a motor.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2339, 8 October 1921, Page 1
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137A MOTORLESS AEROPLANE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2339, 8 October 1921, Page 1
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