TRIP IN ROCKET
Daring German Shot Six Miles in Air PARACHUTE DESCENT London, November 5The “Referee’s” Berlin correspondent says that a passenger-carrying rocket successfully completed a teumiuutes’ Journey, thus realising the dream of Jules Verne. The rocket was shot six miles into the air at a secret demonstration on the Baltic island of Rugen. Otto, brother of the constructor* Hugo Fischer, risked his life On the extraordinary journey. Otto entered the twenty-four foot, torpedo-shaped steel projectile and was shot into the air with a deafening roar, Later Otto declared that he lost consciousness for a minute owing to the tremendous acceleration driving the blood from his head. The altimeter began to fall at 32,000 feet, and he said, “I opened the parachute attachment and began the descent.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 9
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127TRIP IN ROCKET Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 9
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