Woman Pilot Sets New Altitude Mark
goes; up 19,000 BLENHEIM ACHIEVEMENT Press Association BLENHEIM, Today. What is believed to be an altitude record for New Zealand was achieved yesterday afternoon by Miss P. Bennett, one of the Marlborough Aero Club’s pilots, in a Moth. In a climb of more than two hours she reached 19,000 feet. Mr. A. E. Clouston, ■who went up in another Moth at the same time could not get beyond 13,500, though he had previously been up to 16,000. Miss Bennett is very light and her machine was in special trim, factors which would assist her in breaking through the “ceiling.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 889, 5 February 1930, Page 1
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