ALTITUDE RECORD.
GRAY'S FEAT RECOGNISED. (BV CABLE—f-SESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, November 15. The National Aeronautic Association has officially credited Captain Gray with making a world's altitude record on his recent balloon flight, which cost him his life. The Bureau of Standards calibrated his instruments and informed the Association that Captain Gray- rose 42,470 feet before he accidentally cut the oxygen tube which kept him alive. The association will ask the International Aeronautic Federation also to accept the record. [Captain Gray ascended in a balloon and disappeared completely. Later he was found dead amidst the wreckage of his balloon, which had fallen into a tree top. Clasped tightly in his hand was his log. telling that he had reached a record height, and that he had thrown overboard his last bags of sand. The entry then trailed off unfinished. He had accidentally broken his oxygen tube.]
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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149ALTITUDE RECORD. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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