INTO STRATOSPHERE
Attempt to Beat Altitude Record “Dominion” Special Service. — By .Air Mail. London, March 13. Flight Lieutenant M. J. Adam, attached to the R.A.F. experimental section at Farnborough, Hampshire, is standing by, waiting for favourable conditions to make a stratosphere flight. It is thought that the altitude record of 4946 feet, set up by Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain last September, will be beaten by a margin of several thousand feet, and that new facts about flying conditions in the stratosphere will be established. Flight Lieutenant Adam will use a large single-seat monoplane in his attempt, and will wear the latest type of “pressure” suit evolved for highflyers in rarefied air. A series of similar flights are being planned by the Air Ministry in the interests of scientific research. Meteorologists believe that increased knowledge of the stratosphere will lead to more reliable weather forecasts.
Delicate instruments placed in R.A.F. machines and carried into the stratosphere will also record the great intensity of the cosmic rays at high altitudes, still a scientific mystery.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 11
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174INTO STRATOSPHERE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 11
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