AMAZING RESULTS.
700 M.P.H. At 20 Miles High Is
Hope Of Inventor.
GERMANY'S LATEST
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)
BERLIN, May 24,
Amazing results were attained on a Berlin racecourse at the official trial of the "rocket" motor car. It bounded off like a bomb, emitting' flame and smoke, and was travelling at a speed of 125 "miles an hour 40 seconds after the start.
The inventor, Herr Opel, says he has built a new model which will be capable of a speed of 205 miles an hour on a rail track.
When Opel took his seat his head was just projecting. With a roar like the broadside from a cruiser the car shot off like a flash and disappeared in clouds of thick smoke and black flakes. Then it shot forward at a speed of 112 miles an hour, as each roar portended the, explosion of a rocket.
It was not an attempt to break the speed record. The inventor's intention was to demonstrate the successful application of a principle, the whole future of which is in the air, not on the ground. To travel at a height of 20 miles at a speed of 700 miles an hour, and to circumnavigate the earth in one day are among Opel's concrete proposals." He says it will not be long before the nations will be competing for the development of, rocket aviation.
AMAZING RESULTS.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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