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WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS AT 30,000 FEET UP TELLS OWN STORY LATER NEW YORK, Monday. | Miss Elinor Smith, aged 18, who claims to have established an altitude record for women, has revealed the tact that she became unconscious at a height of 30,000 feet'. The airwoman says she drifted almost a mile toward the earth before she could seize the controls again. She lost consciousness when the oxygen tanks froze in her machine, which j fell to 26,000 feet before she regained her senses. Then Miss Smith righted the airplane and continued the down journey. When she landed one altimeter registered 30,000 feet and the other 32,000 feet. The record will not become official, however, until Miss Smith’s sealed barograph has been sent to Washington for calibration.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 9
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128IN PERIL ALOFT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 9
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