STRATOSPHERE FLIGHTS
ENGINE REQUIREMENTS RESEARCH PROCEEDING (British Official Wireless.) • , Press Association— By Telegraph—Copy right -RUGBY, September 25. The Bristol ; Company is working on a* experimental aeroplane for flights in the stratosphere. A special highlysupercharged and extremely powerful engine is being developed, designed to minntain the power output at levels of 50,000 ft and more, and drive an airscrew of variable pitch. The designers now have a great deal of information about the conditions to be met in a flight at great heights, as Bristol engines have been fitted to each of three aeroplanes which have set up height records in recent years. The present record of 47,350 ft is held by Renata Donati, an Italian aviator. It was established in a biplane equipped with a supercharged Bristol Pegasus 1,100 horse-power motor.
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Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 11
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131STRATOSPHERE FLIGHTS Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 11
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