WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN
28,000 FEET PEACHED BY BRTTISTI AVIATORS.
At Martles-Hagheafh, near Ipswich, England, recently, I lie world's altitude record was broken. In the face of a lllimilo wind. Captain Andrews Long, j'.A.E., piiot, and i'ieulenant Blowes, observer, ascended to a height of 28,(100 l'eet on a two-seater biplane, British designed, with British-buill engine. Trouble occurred at 13,f>fl0 feet with the oxygen apparatus, which failed the aviators, and Blowes collapsed. At 28,000 foot the heating apparatus also worked erratically. Einally, the machine stopped tltrougfi lack of petrol pump pressure offing to the rarefaction of the air. Both men suffered from frost bite.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5
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103WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5
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