GIRL GLIDER’S FEAT
Record of Eighteen Loops Miss Joan Meakin, the 24-year-old British girl glider, has.broken the loop record at the Bristol Airport at Whitchurch. The previous record of 15 loops was held by Frau Hanna Riche, the German glider. Miss Meakin beat this by executing 18 loops. She was first, towed to a height of 4500 ft.. when she slipped the cable and began her loops. After completing 17 loops, she swooped gracefully over the aerodrome, completed another loop, and then landed. Miss Meakin said the conditions were absolutely perfect. “I thought I had completed 21 loops,’’ she added. Last April she crossed the Channel from Ostend to Lympne and Heston in a German glider towed by a light aeroplane. This was the first Channel glide and the longest towed glide ever made by a woman. She has been gliding for three years, aud has had
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 212, 21 August 1934, Page 6
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147GIRL GLIDER’S FEAT Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 212, 21 August 1934, Page 6
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