ALTITUDE TEST
THE EVEREST FLIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHY DIFFICULT
(Times Cable.) / (Received March 16, 2 p.m.)
KABACHI, MaTch 15. Mr. Maclntyre, accompanied by his chief cinematographer, Mr. Bonnett, made an altitude test of the WestlaijdWallace aeroplane and reached 34,000 feet in 90 minutes. Mr. Bonnett experimented in taking photographs with his head outside the cockpit. He quickly found the conditions impossible, the wind penetrating his oxygen mask and dispersing the oxygen, making him feel ill.
The temperature was minus 45 de grees.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12
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