PROGRESS OF AVIATION
PETROL SUPPLIED DURING FLIGHT.
A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, December 6. (Received Doe. 6, at 8.15 p.m.)
The Central News Agency’s Paris correspondent says that the experiment of supplying petrol from one aeroplane to another during flight was successfully conducted at Le Bourget. The receiving machine flew to a height of 10,000 ft, while the supplying machine, which was about i)oft higher, dropped a pipeline and remained for five minutes in the same position filling the other’s tank.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 5
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