The Archive · 1938

Woman's Glider Record

Berlin, May 15.

Shatlering a record only several hours old, the German aviatrix Hanna Reltsch set a new slider fight mark today as she flew 250 kilometres (156 miles) without ston.trom Darmstadt, in the region of the Rhoen range of mountains, and back to her starting-point. Her record-breaking trip took five and one, half hours.

Ttist a little while before "Hana fReitsch established her flight mark, the German airman, Kraft, covered jo distance of 168 kilometres G05 rile) on stop glider flight to shatter the previous record,—Havas.

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