ALTITUDE FLIGHT
wtiooi’ixc; corci! cum: FATHER TAKES UP BAHY To try to cure his two-year-old son of whooping-cough. Mr, L. Mitchell, a Johanue.UjillK hUMlless llliill; (liarC ored a special ‘plane at ( iOydon. Mr. -Mitchell had read reports that flying at n high altitude had cured the complaint. .Me therelore took the hoy and bis nurse up in the ‘plane, and for marly an hour flew at- 10.T.00 IK "T think the trip has already done him good,” Mr. Mitchell said afterwards. ’the llight cost £lO I"o Leeds children were flown to a height of two miles and a liaii in ■January to test the theory, and they showed no signs of whooping afterwart Is though a cold remained.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 243, 6 October 1939, Page 4
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118ALTITUDE FLIGHT Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 243, 6 October 1939, Page 4
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