GLIDED NINETY MILES
AIRMAN’S RECORD FEAT IN GERMANY WINS NEWSPAPER PRIZE Times Cable Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Fi'iday. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says Robert Kronfeld, the Austrian glider and pilot, made a record gliding flight between Berbeshoevde and Detmold, a distance of 62 miles, in 51 hours, over the Teutoburgei’ Wall, winning a newspaper prize of £250. It is estimated that the actual distance eovei-ed was 90 miles. Kronfeld was often hovering in one spot for an hour to catch favourable air currents, elsewhere attaining over 50 miles an hour with a following wind, motor-cars following him with difficulty.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 9
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101GLIDED NINETY MILES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 9
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