FOUR MILES HIGH.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 15

FOUR MILES HIGH.

WOMAN PILOT'S NEW RECORD

(IBOX OUK OWX COBBCSFOirSZKf.) LONDON, October 19. Mrs Elliott-Lynn, the well-known woman air pilot, created a new world's height record for light aeroplanes by piloting an Avro-Avian two-seater 'plane, driven by a 90 h.p. Alpha engine, to a height of 19,000 feet, or nearly four miles above ground. She went up at Woodford Aerodrome, near Manchester, carrying a passenger, Mr Barrett, one of her friends, and a sealed barograph. When she was nearly four miles above the earth Mrs Elliott-Lynn entered a cold zone of upper air in which the temperature fell 20 degrees below freezing point. "Before I left the ground," she said on alighting, "I had clothed myself very warmly, having been warned beforehand that owing to a northerly trend in the upper air it would be bitterly cold. But even in spite of my extra clothing I felt the cold very much indeed. "The actual reading on my heightrecorder was 19,200 feet. I think 1 could have climbed another 2000 feet but for a danger of oil-pressure trouble. When eventually I came down and passed through the clouds again I found myself over the coast near Southport, more than 30 miles from Manchester."