MOTORLESS FLYING
LINDBERGH’S ACHIEVEMENT AWARDED GLIDER LICENSE. Press Association—By .Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 20. (Received January 21, at 10 a.m.) A San Diego report states that without any previous experience of motorless flying, Colonel Lindbergh took off in a glider and flew half a mile over the ocean. He attained an altitude of 500 ft, and remained aloft half an hour. On his return he was awarded a firstclass glider license, being the ninth in the United States.
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Evening Star, Issue 20388, 21 January 1930, Page 9
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78MOTORLESS FLYING Evening Star, Issue 20388, 21 January 1930, Page 9
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