VALUABLE RESULTS.
‘‘Professor Piccard declares tliat the results obtained have not only warranted the flight, but made it desirable to repeat the experiment. He was, he says, at no tiime in difficulties, as every contingency had been considered in advance.”
The previous height record of 40,000 feet was held hy the American, H. C. Grey, who had to jump from his balloon with a parachute. Professor Piccard also carried parachutes, to be used, of course, only as a desperate resort.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 5
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80VALUABLE RESULTS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 5
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