AERIAL GLIDER.
AUSTRIAN'S PERFORMANCE., FLIGHT OVER HILLY RANGE. Times Cable. LONDON, May 17. The Berlin correspondent of the Times ,reports that Robert Kronfeld, an Austrian, piloting a glider, made a record flight between Bcrbeshoevde and Detmold, over the Teutoburger-Wald, a distance of 62 miles, in 5£ hours. He won a newspaper prize of £250. It'"is estimated that the actual distance covered was 90 miles. Kronfeld often ..-was' hovering over one spot for an hour awaiting favourable air currents. Elsewhere he attained a speed of more than 50 miles an hour with a following wind. .Motorists followed him with difficulty. The • Teutoburger-Wald is a range of hills stretching about 70 miles in the north-east of Westphaliia, south of Han'over arid south-west of Lippe. It divides into three parallel ranges.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20259, 20 May 1929, Page 12
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