FORCED DOWN AGAIN
AUSTRALIAN FLYER IN ' CZECHOSLOVAKIA
(Received December 19, 10 a.m.) . LONDON, December 18. The South Australian, Mr. R.:W. Gropler, who was forced .down' at Calais last week after leaving for Australia, took off again, but made a fofrced landing at Komarno, Czechoslovakia, owing to ice forming on the wings. ' Gropler is flying a Klemm lowwinged monoplane. He has had only seventy-five hours' solo flying, and his intention is to fly home to Adelaide in easy stages. . , ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 148, 19 December 1935, Page 9
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