ROCKET AEROPLANE.
A FLIGHT ACCOMPLISHED. INVENTOR-PILOT LEFT DAZED. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received October 1. 5.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30. The German inventor, Von Opel, piloting a rocket aeroplano of his own design, flew six miles at a height of 250 ft. at Frankfort. Undeterred by tho failure of his first two attempts to rise, when tho machine only bounced 50yds., Opel . persevered. Finally ho took the air with a noise akin to heavy gunfire. The machine spurted flames as it went into llio air in a series of curves. It is totally unlike tho usual aeroplane, it is a monoplane without a propeller. The fuselage is beneath the wings. Behind the pilot's seat is what appears to bo a shortened motor in which rockets are adjusted. The propulsive force is obtained by the rapid explosion of «ases against the air, which drives the machine forward. When Opel landed lie was sitting in front of the stub-nosed fuselage, obviously in a dazed condition. He was clad in an asbestos suit—a necessary protection against tho red-hot steel tubes in which the rockets exploded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20375, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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183ROCKET AEROPLANE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20375, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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