A MOTORLESS AEROPLANE.
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT MADE.
Fos a long time a prize of 10,000 francs has been offered in France to the first aviator who, on an aeroplane without a motor, succeeded in leaving the ground for a flight of 10yds.. Hitherto the experiments had come to nothing, but now the champion, Gabriel Poulain, after several trials, has reached a distance of over 12yds. at a height of 4ft. He has thus won the prize, equal to about £400. Poulain's machine is an ordinary safety bicycle with two planes. The under-plane, which carries the bicycle, has a surface of 15yds. square. When the pilot gets up a sufficient speed he unfastens the chain of the bicycle, and the top wing bends down behind.
Poulain surceeded many times in raising up the machine without a motor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17895, 24 September 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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135A MOTORLESS AEROPLANE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17895, 24 September 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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