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Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 5

The first attempt to fly across Iho English Channel with an engineless airplane is to be made before long 'by Hans Richter, of Berlin, who will undertake the flight in a machines of-his own construction, to h« '•"«• —v-v tliß name of Astoria. The plane is a well-constructed machine, aklnm,;,. , mittedly fragile; whether it will be capable of crossing the Channel remains to be seen. It has a span of twelve metres, a wing surface of sixteen square metres, and weighs eighty kilograms. The constructor claims that it can descend on the water and remain there for some time in case .of enierftiiacsy.i'''.