RECORD FLIGHT.
BAIXOONISTS' THRILLS. BEACHED 19,000 FEET. LOXDOX, May 27. A Stockholm message states that the American balloon Goodyear lIT., which won the Gordon Bennett Cup race this week, travelling 527 miles before it landed at Soeldeborg, had a most thrilling (light of 41 hours 11 minutes, which the pilot. Van Orman, claims is a record. The balloon was drifting over the North Sea at a height of 3000 ft, when it commenced to sink. Ballast was thrown out. and the balloon drifted over the Baltic Sea, where it was caught in a rainstorm. In order to escape this, more ballast was jettisoned, causing the balloon to ascend to 19.000 ft. This compelled the use of oxygen, after which the aeronauts found themselves on the Swedish coast, and. the ballast being exhausted, they were compelled to land.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 7
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