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ALTITUDE RECORD
20 MULES TO BE ATTEMPTED
[United Press Association. —By Eleccrw Telegraph.—Copyright.]
LONDON, April 26,
A German astronomer named ObcrImir, and an inventur-pilot, named Highborn, are going to challenge Professor Piccard’s height record of 10 miles 200 feet. They hope to rise twenty miles above the earth. After a year’s work they have completed a secret machine which is virtually a (lying sphere,, and they declare that recent tests have shown the machine to lie perfect. They hope to make the attempt in .May, and are confident of rising fifteen to twenty miles, and’ even higher. If all depends on tho machine’s behaviour in tho rarefied atmosphere.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1932, Page 6
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