ON THE WIND
When gliding from Huish to Fowey, in Cornwall, Mr J. S. Fox found himself losing height near Taunton. He then saw a kestrel soaring and realised that it was in an up-current air. This current took him up to 6000 feet, where he found a seagull soaring. Another clue to air current came to him from the smoke rising from burning heather on Exmoor. Smoke from a heath fire on the south coast of England had also given valuable information to Mr Philip Wills when gliding to Plympton, and he turned it to account in his record flight of 206 miles, Heston to St Austell, a fortnight later. Mr Wills made use of the lift of the rising air along the sea coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1938, Page 6
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126ON THE WIND Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1938, Page 6
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