KING MEETS PREMIERS
' Andience at Palace • , (Received 6, 1030 a.nt.)' , LONDON, May 5. % The King gave an audienee to all Dominion Prime Ministsrs,
Professor August Piccard, the stratosphere pioneer, has ordered a new balloon from Ihe Polish Jablonna factory to ascend to 30,000 metres (about 98,430 feet). The bag is to have a eapacity of 10,000 eubic metres. Professor Piccard intends to make the new ascent somewhere an Poland in a few months ' time. He made the first etratosphere flight in 1931, Teaching an altitude of 51,775 feet over Germany and Austria- The present reeord of 72,395 feet was set on November 11 last in tlie United States by Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson, of the Americ-an Army.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 93, 6 May 1937, Page 6
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