MOTORLESS GLIDER
STUDENT BREAKS WORLD’S RECORD BERLIN, August 4. With a packet of sandwiches and a bottle of water, Kurt Schmitt, a student at Konigsberg, anticipating a short flight, started in a motorless glider from Korschcnruhe at 7.30 yesterday morning. He broke the German record at 2 a.m. to-day, and the world’s record at 6 a.m. He landed at 8.30 to-night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 7
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61MOTORLESS GLIDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 7
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