"BLOWN ABOUT LIKE CORK”
ESTABLISHING GLIDER RECORD. AIR FORCE MAN’S EXPERIENCE. (British Wireless.) Rugby, Sept. 5. Lieut. G. M. Buxton, of the Royal Air Force, established a new British altitude gliding record of 7000 feet (subject to official confirmation) at the national gliding meeting near Thirsk late in the afternoon after flying for the day was over. A bank of black thundercloud rolled over from the Pennines, and several machines were got out to take advantage of the conditions, which were favourable for flying. When Lieut. Buxton came down on a farm near Middlesbrough he said that he had been flying blind inside a cloud. He was blown about like a cork by the turbulence of the storm. He was in the air for two hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 5
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