BALLOONING
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A RSiCORD FLIGHT ACROSS THE CARPATHIANS. (Received Last Nigjht, 11 o'clock.) PARIS, January 15. Duooonet and Dupont ballooned from Ffemettebroud to Sokolowska, Russia, fifty metres beyond the record. They crossed the Carpathians at a height of 10,000 feet. The flight occupied 29 hours 45 minutes, and was fimshed in a snowstorm., twitb. t!he thermometer four degrees below zero. Wlliem. they alighted there was no habitation."in siglfct. Their provisions were frozetn. ,a!nid they had to go foodless for three days. They were obliged to leave the balIjoon, but isaved the Basket and instrumenits.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10529, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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102BALLOONING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10529, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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