London, June 21.
Another gliding record has been established.
The Austrian airman, Robert Kronfeld, crossed the' English Channel both ways in one day, thus winning the £1,000 prize offered by the "Daily Mai Kronfeld, in a Weim glider, to off from St, Inglevert, near Ca 6 o'clock' yesterday evening. His glider was towed to a suitable altitude by an aeroplane and then released. It landed at the Swingate aerodrome, near Dover, at 8 a.m. Kronfeld took off again at 9 p.m. in the gathering darkness and landed at, St. Inglever, at 10.82 pam, The Canadian airman and opera singer, Lissant Beardmore, made the first flight across the Channel engineless plane. yesterday. Sune 20.
The English Channel was crossed for the first time in a glider yesterday by a London engineer named Lissant Beardmore, With wire hawser and a telephone cable attaching his glider to an aeroplane he was towed into the fair from the Lympe Aerodrome. JAt a height of 14,000 fect, Beard. more released the rand headed for the sca, He made smooth crossing and landed in France at the Saint Inglevert sero-drome, about three miles from the coast.—Wireless through Reuter, Breslau, June 20, For the second time a German glider flyer has succeeded in making a flight over a city, The aviator Wolf Birth had his glider! towed by an ordinary. aeroplane to height of 700 metres and after effecting his release steadily rose 1,100 metres. For nearly three hours he Kept his glider flying above the city and then returned to and made a landing at the Breslau serodrome—Trans Ocean-Kuo Min,
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