AIRMAN FROST-BITTEN
ASCENDS TO RECORD HEIGHT AT 100 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. GERMAN TITLE CAPTURED. London, Saturday. In spite of his electrically-heated goggles,' gloves, shoes and clothing, Captain Cyril Uwins came out of his aoroplane to-day frosthitten and shivering. It was scarcely to be woncier.ed at, for he had been up 45,000 feet in 100 degrees of frost. Captain Uwins is the Bristol Aeroplane Co's chief test pilot. He went up in a special 550 h.p. Pegasus Bristol aeroplane, equipped with special oicygen pumping apparatus. His altitude of 45,000 feet over the Severn Valley heats Germany's 43,200 feet record. The flight lasted two hours. The aeroplane is a single-seater, with an open cockpit. The wings were coated with ice and snow when it landed. Capt. Uwins, wh'ose neek was broken in a wartime crash, flies with a metal support to keep the vertebrae together.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 342, 1 October 1932, Page 2
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