CIVIL FLYING.
Prince George Sees Monster Display. WOMAN'S GLIDER LOOP RECORD (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 17. Prince George, using the Prince of Wales , private aeroplane, flew to Hatfield aerodrome and saw the largest display yet given of civil aircraft in Britain. Seventy machines participated and the programme, including the bombing of a motor car by auxiliary Air Force squadrons, aerobatics and a 2000 feet parachute descent.
Miss Joan Meakin, with a glider, -was towed to a height of 4500 feet at the Bristol airport and then slipped the cable and broke the looping record of 18 loops. Miss Joan Meakin, aged 24, of .London, was towed in a German glider by an aeroplane from Frankfort to Ostend, on the Belgian coast, on April 4 last. The following day she flew by the same method from Ostend to Lympne, Kent, in 74 minutes, flying later to Heston in one hour. She looped the loop seven times before landing. During the cross-Channel flight the airwoman reached a height of 2000 ft. She described the trip as "lovely."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 142, 18 June 1934, Page 7
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