PETROL SUPPLY
TO AEROPLANES IN THE AIR. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, December 6. (Received December 6, 8.15 p.m.) The Paris' correspondent of the Central News Agency says that the> experiment of supplying petrol from one aeroplane to another during a flight was successfully conducted at Le Bourget, where the receiving machine flew to a height of 10,000 feet while the supplying machine, about ninety feet higher, dropped a pipe line and remained five minutes in the same position filling the other’s tank. »
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Southland Times, Issue 19116, 7 December 1923, Page 5
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83PETROL SUPPLY Southland Times, Issue 19116, 7 December 1923, Page 5
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