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    Squadron Leader Robert Kronfeld, AFC (5 May 1904 – 12 February 1948) was an Austrian-born gliding champion and sailplane designer of the 1920s and 30s...
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  • brother of Maria Dronke. Josh Kronfeld (born 1971), New Zealand rugby union player and television presenter. Robert Kronfeld (1904–1948), Austrian aviator...
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  • The Kronfeld Monoplane was a 1930s British ultra-light aircraft designed by Robert Kronfeld, only one was built. Designed as a successor to the company's...
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    designed by Alexander Lippisch in Germany in 1929. Owned and flown by Robert Kronfeld, it was one of the first sailplanes intended to exploit thermals. It...
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    After the variometer was invented in 1929 by Alexander Lippisch and Robert Kronfeld, the sport of gliding moved into a new realm. Variometers also became...
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  • prominent designers and pilots, including Wolf Hirth's "Musterle" and Robert Kronfeld's "Wien" and "Austria" (for many years the largest sailplane ever built)...
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    the first Planette at West Malling. The firm was then taken over by Robert Kronfeld who modified the second Planette with a streamlined pylon, and renamed...
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    "ROBERT KRONFELD 1904 - 1948". phila-partner.de (in German). Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2022. "Robert Kronfeld -...
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    including the famous pilots, Hungarian László Almásy and Austrian Robert Kronfeld. In 1939 the royal park also hosted a jamboree of Girl Scouts. Gödöllő...
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    length to be carried by Platz while riding a bicycle. 1928. Austrian Robert Kronfeld proved that thermal lift could be used by a sailplane to gain altitude...
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    Scouts were represented, including the famous pilots, László Almásy and Robert Kronfeld. A meeting of Skolta Esperanto Ligo took also place at the Jamboree...
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    facilities. Most of the test flights were piloted by Flight Lieutenant Robert Kronfeld. Tests were successful, but the project was abandoned because a suitable...
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    sharing a new record out and return flight of 30 km (19 mi) with Robert Kronfeld. Despite several launching accidents in the Alps early in the new year...
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    Corporation. Associated Press. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015. Hanley, Robert (11 October 1989). "Copter Crash Kills 3 Aides Of Trump". The New York Times...
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    the leading edge, 28.4 deg at quarter chord. On 13 November 1944, Robert Kronfeld piloted the first flight at Farnborough, towed by an Armstrong Whitworth...
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    crash in Hungary, requiring a hospital stay of four months. He and Robert Kronfeld were the first pilots to gain the Silver C badge. He was the chief...
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  • Scout Jamboree held in Hungary (1933), in front of the contingent was Robert Kronfeld, prioneering of Austrian gliding and Rover Scout leader from Innsbruck...
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  • testing of the aircraft began in 1946 at Namao, Edmonton, flown by S/L. Robert Kronfeld, A.F.C. RAF initially and continued by S/L. E. L. Baudoux, D.S.O.,...
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    with most of the test flights being piloted by Flight Lieutenant Robert Kronfeld. Baynes also worked on designs for long-range bombers, and the V-22...
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  • flights. The first recipients of the Silver C were Wolf Hirth and Robert Kronfeld on 15 February 1931. In 1932 the FAI recognized gliding, and formed...
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  • towed flight was made from Maidstone to Reading on 20 June 1931. (Robert Kronfeld made a successful channel crossing the same day.) The RAF Pageant held...
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    Wasserkuppe, including the Günter brothers, Wolf Hirth, the Horten brothers, Robert Kronfeld, Hans Jacobs, Heini Dittmar, Alexander Lippisch, Willy Messerschmitt...
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  • beyond destroyed, the wings still remained available. Inspired by Robert Kronfeld's engineering, Castello studied a two-seater tandem fuselage in 1935...
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    during the summer of 1938 was the celebrated Austrian glider pilot Robert Kronfeld, following what was described as a "thrilling flight" across the Irish...
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  • a ditch, and a basic hangar. The famous Austrian gliding pioneer, Robert Kronfeld became manager and CFI (Chief Flying Instructor) of the Club in June...
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    an instrument unknown outside Germany and previously only used by Robert Kronfeld in the RRG Professor two years earlier. On 5 October he flew a cross...
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  • flight : Henry Schlerf, for volunteer training activities 1930 Gliding : Robert Kronfeld, for his achievements at the 10th Rhön competition 1931 Powered flight :...
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  • instructor, world record breaker, and U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame member Robert Kronfeld - Austrian gliding champion and sailplane designer Jean-Marie Le Bris...
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    first double crossing of the Channel in a glider was made by Austrian Robert Kronfeld on 20 June. In a glider called Wien, he took off from Saint-Inglevert...
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