GIRL GLIDER
FLIGHT ACROSS CHANNEL. HEIGHT OF 2000 FEET. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, April 5. Starting from Frankfort yesterday in a German glider towed by an aeroplane, Joan Meakin, a 24-year-old London air girl, to-day took off from Ostend and landed at Lympne 74 minutes later. Miss Meakin said the cross-Channel glide at a height of 2000 feet was lovely. She later glided to HcstOn in an hour, looping seven times before landing.
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Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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74GIRL GLIDER Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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