ALTITUDE FLIGHT.
NEW RECORD IN AMERICA. By Telerrapb.—Press Asin —Copyright. Received Sept. 29, 9.30 p.m. Washingtno, Sept. 28. __ At Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenant Macrady set a new altitude record in a Lapere aeroplane, reaching a height of 40,800 meet in the same machine in which Major Schroeder made the previous record of 38,180 feet. Macrady was 107 minutes in the air. The craft became unsteady, lurched and began to fall to earth, but it recovered. The temperature was 58 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 5
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82ALTITUDE FLIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 5
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