HOW A RECORD TOWED GLIDE WAS ACCOMPLISHED: WOMAN CROSSES THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Miss Joan Meakin, the London airwoman, crossing the English coastline near Lympne in her glider after being towed across the channel from Ostend by the escorting aeroplane, seen below. When nearing the aerodrome the towing cable was cast off and after doing three loops, Miss Meakin made a perfect landing*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 6
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62HOW A RECORD TOWED GLIDE WAS ACCOMPLISHED: WOMAN CROSSES THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Miss Joan Meakin, the London airwoman, crossing the English coastline near Lympne in her glider after being towed across the channel from Ostend by the escorting aeroplane, seen below. When nearing the aerodrome the towing cable was cast off and after doing three loops, Miss Meakin made a perfect landing* New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 6
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