TEST SATISFACTORY.
EVEREST AIR EXPEDITION. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 25. The teat of the electrically-heated suits to be used by the British airmen in the expedition to Mount Everest proved entirely satisfactory. The plans include taking off from the R.A.F. base at Purnea, 160 miles distant from Everest. The flight from the base to the summit and back is likely to occupy six hours. The actual passage to the-summit will be cinematographed and the observers' impressions recorded on a dictaphone. As a precaution against frostbite the exposed, parts of the airmen's bodies will be copiously oiled. The aeroplanes will carry special "iron rations" in the event of a forced landing in some remote valley.
The Houston-Westland biplane which will be used for the attempt on Everest successfully underwent an altitude test at Yeovil, Somerset, when it achieved a height of 35,000 feet, which is 1000 feet above what will be required by the expedition.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 7
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