BALLOON RECORD.
BIG FtY OVERSEA.
-.-. ; FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN. ; BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGET. "•;...... '(Rco. Qot. ,14, 9.55 p.m.) . .' ' '' : '"London, October 14. A' '.mammoth balloon, starting from tho Crystal Palace:, on Saturday .evening, dbscended.nt Brookanj Sweden, at 1.30, p.m.' on Sunday, beating'the oversea record.
■ It ! is ''not-''easy to locato on tho map the place' in ; Sweden where the balloon is Baid to have descended,'but the .distanco must bo *t least 700 riiiles.'-': Some • time ! ago two German aeronauts' travelled in a balloon from Leip6ic, in Germany, to.Leicester, in England, a d'stanc'e'of 550 miles'.'ln 1900 the. Conite do 1a Va'ux -travelled 1193 -miles in 35 hours . -15 minutes, and i it is recorded that in 1859 Mr. Wise, of St. .Louis, travelled 1150 miles, but these balloon trips were •' probably overland. Dr. : Kurt claims -the- record for longest time in.the. Air—s3 ; hours.. The winner of the recent Brussels, balloon race covered K0 miles, landing at Bayo'nne,'in France.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 5
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154BALLOON RECORD. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 5
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