GIRL’S AIR FEAT
ASCENDS 30,000 FEET.
Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
NEW YORK, March 11. Miss Eleanor Smith, an eighteen-years-old aviatrix, who claims to have set an altitude record for women, has revealed that she he ame unconscious at a height of 30,000 feet, and she drifted almost a mile' towards the earth before she was able to seize the controls again.
She lost consciousness when the oxygen tanks froze and she then fell to 26,000 feet before regaining her senses. Miss Smith then righted her plane, and she continued her down journey. When she landed, one altimeter registered 30,000 feet, and the other 32,000 feet. The record will not become official, however, until Miss Smith s sealed barograph is sent to Washington for calibration.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 3
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