BOTH CHEAP AND EASY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 1

BOTH CHEAP AND EASY.

Gliding Expert Tells How It is Done. LONDON, May 21. Robert Kronfeld, the Austrian gliding expert, who flew from Croydon to Paris in a motor-glider, using only 5s 6d worth of petrol, told the Paris correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” that he made the trip to prove that flying was within the means of the average person and that it was as safe as motoring. ♦,«* He declared that he could have gone on to Geneva without exhausting his petrol. lie said that his wife learned to glide in a few lessons and controlled a motor-glider after a week. A French firm will reproduce his machine at £l5O a-piece. The delivery of the glider by steamer and rail from London to Paris would have cost £l9, compared with living it for 5s 6d—less than the taxi fare from Le Bourget to Paris. The machine takes off in SO yards, rising spirally like an autogiro] and can land at a speed of 80 miles an hour. Krcnfeld forecast the formation of hundreds of gliding clubs, with tens of thousands of members who might make evening glides 30 or 40 miles into the country. lie said that he had opened works in Middlesex to construct motorgliders.