FUELLING IN MID-AIR.
FRENCH AERIAL TEST. (BST CABLE—fSBSS ASSOCIATION—CO?TOJ»HT') .(AUSTBAiIA.?! AKB K.Z. C'ASLK A3BOCUUOS-) (Receu'ed December 6th, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. The Paris correspondent; of the Central News Agency says that the experiment of supplying petrol from one aeroplane to another during ilight was successfully conducted at Lebourget. The receiving machine flew to * height of 10,000 feet, while the supplj" ing machine was about 90 feet higher. It dropped a pips line and remained f(> r hi\j minutes in the same position, filling the ether's tanks.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17940, 7 December 1923, Page 8
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