AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

height RECORD ACKNOWLEDGED i; " .. ?. .

EIGHT MILES’. ALTITUDE.

v V (British; Official Wireless.)

.rif: :■ RUGBY 24. •. The Royal ’■..Aero Olub has confirmed the claim of the British airman, Captain “ Cyril Uwins,.; to ; th%.. world’s altitude record. .... -< : r u«V

•Last week, Uwins, who is chief test , pilot, for. fthe Bristol ’ Aeroplane Company, reached a height of 43,976 feet', or well .over 8 .miles-,.; ; which exceeds the previous world’s record, held 'by the United States,-•by^n«r«4y--809~feet. The machine: used, was years old. and before being frhm China td he fecat^ifcjpr j Jay in flood, water fori a considerable time / at Nanking aerodrome,:'-, AiHrigtol v Pegaaua «»glne was ehoiefl-Jor-tbe attempt, and Vwini believed he <jowld have flown even higher bad not the petrol supply been exhausted. Two fisaled barographs were placed in the before the ascent by the Boyal Aero Olub, and these were.,->• afterwards handed to the National Physical Laboratory for examination. . - Uwins wore lelectrically> heated clothes and bad an oxygen' apparatus,

and flew through over a i hundred, degrees of frost. Uwin's,. who sustained k dislocated neck through a..-, war

crash, has in . recent years done much experimental work' developing aircraft and engines. He was the guest-of honour at, a 'luncheon given' J. at . ■ Filton Aerodrome. ; K

AN UNFOUNDED RUMOUR

NUNCrESSER AND - COLI

ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland! ; Sept. 23

Police Sergeant Lee, of Curling, when asked to confirm a -.report ,of. the finding of . traces of" NungesseiS and Coli, said 1 : r^Tftero.'-48 no : truth in it.” The report' was to th© ! - effect that at Mt. Rlowidon, Bay of Islands, near Curling, ,•two skeletons < and the remains,.of an aeroplan#"had been found there, and it was they might he • those of <the lost French flyfer?;'-Ndugesser and Coli, who 1 disappeared on ‘the trans-At-lantic flight some years ago. •’>"