AERIAL ACROBATICS
STUNTER FLIES BACKWARDS, UPSIDE DOWN RECORD HOLDER’S TRICK NEW YORK, Tuesday. Martiu Jensen, holder of the world’s solo endurance flight record, and second prize winner in the AmericanHawaii flight, amazed beholders today by flying backwards in a 100-horse-power biplane while it was upside down. After looping-the-loop, Jensen turned his machine upside down and flew with a 40-mile gale behind him. Then, righting the biplane, he headed it into the wind, turned it upside down and throttled the engine, which nearly stalled. At a speed of 3(h miles an hour against the 40-mile head wind, he was carried backwards at about ten miles an hour. The trick was accomplished with the nose of the biplane elevated. WORLD’S RECORDS GERMANY HOLDS MAJORITY SMALL BRITISH TOTAL LONDON, Monday. The International Aeronautical Federation has officially recognised 85 world's air records. Of these Germany claims 33. France 22, the United States 37, Britain eight. Switzerland three, and Italy and Czeeho-Slovakia one each. Notwithstanding Britain’s small total it includes three of the most important speed records for seaplanes over varying distances, _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 9
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177AERIAL ACROBATICS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 9
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