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WHAT is claimed to be easily a world record in gliding was achieved by Kurt Schmidt, a young German student, on August 3-4. A correspondent, writing to the Times of August 5, states that Schmidt landed at Korschenruh, near Königsberg, on August 4, after having been in the air for more than thirty-six hours. The glider was of the Grunauer Baby type.
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New Gliding Record. Nature 132, 238 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132238d0
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