FLAME-SPURTING PLANE
ROCKET MACHINE HURTLES ALONG INVENTOR-PILOT DAZED Australian and N.Z. Press Association LONDON, Monday. The German inventor, Herr Von Opel, piloting a rocket airplane of his own design, flew six miles at a height of 250 feet at Frankfort. Undeterred by the failure of his first two attempts to rise, when the machine only bounced 50 yards, Von Opel persevered. Finally he took the air with a noise akin to heavy gunfire. The machine spurted flames as it yyient into the air in a series of curves. It is totally unlike the usual airplane. It is a monoplane without a propeller. The fuselage is beneath the wings. Behind the pilot’s seat is what appears to be a shortened motor, in which rockets are adjusted. The propulsive force is obtained by the rapid explosions of gases against the air, which drives the machine forward. When Von Opel landed, he was sitting in front of the stub-nosed fuselage, obviously in a dazen condition. He was clad in an asbestos suit —a necessary protection against the redhot steel tubes in which the rockets exploded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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182FLAME-SPURTING PLANE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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