VOYAGE IN ROCKET
GERMAN'S EXPERIENCE
SHOT SIX MILES UP IN AIR
PARACHUTE DESCEx\ TT
United Press Association—By Electric Telt- ; Verapli—Copyrleht " (Received November 6, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, November .5,
Tho '.'Referee's?' Berlin correspondent says that a passenger-carrying , rocket successfully completed, a teiiminutes 1 journey, thus realising thi dream of Jules-Verne. • The rocket was shot six miles into tho air at a secrot; demonstration on the? Baltic, -island of .Rugen and Otto, brother of thoj constructor, Hugo Fischer, risked, his' life on tho extraordinary journey. Otto entered the twenty-four foot, torpedoshaped ste«l projectile and Was shot into, the air with ; avdea'foning roar. ( Later Otto, declared; that he lost consciousness for a minute owing to tbe^ tremendouis acceleration driving ' tho, blood from his bead. The altimeter began' to fall at 32,000 feet; .and h« said, "I opened the \ parachute attachItnent and began the • descent." • .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 7
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141VOYAGE IN ROCKET Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 7
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