MOTORLESS AIRPLANES
GLIDERS IN GERMANY BURhTM, July 29. Summer visitors to this popular North Sea resort now have an opportunity to learn to pilot motorless airplanes. A summer station for gliders has been established here, and in addition to the group of some 60 regular pupils, special courses in gliding have been arranged for the summer guests. Conditions for gliding arc excellent i Borkum. The dunes, deflecting the winds from all sides, create an “up-wind” and the warm sand of the dunes and the broad strand also create upward currents of air.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 7
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92MOTORLESS AIRPLANES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 7
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