WILEY POSTS PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9

WILEY POSTS PLAN

THROUGH STRATOSPHERE

LONDON TO MELBOURNE

United Press Association—By Electric Telograph—Copyrlght.% ! LONDON, September 1. ' Tho "Dispatch'1' states that Wiley Post will shoot through the stratosphere like a rocket, arriving in Australia on the secojul clay of the Centenary: rnco ii' Ijis plan succeeds. ..-■'.

lip has fitted to his engine a blower which delivers thin air from fhe stratosphere, enabling him to breathe and obviating , tho necessity of carrying heavy tubes of.oxygen. The blower collects thin air and delivers it at sea level atmospheric pressure.' If .the pressure becomes too great, tho valve cuts off the supply. Tho breathed air is discharged through valves in tho boots of tho airtight suit in which Wiley Post will be encased. His aluminium .helmet is equipped to receive the transformed air.

Wiley' Post expects to get at least' 850 miles an hour seven miles above the eaVth. His airtight.suit. carries a small supply of oxygen in the event of the blower failing.

British air experts regard the plan as foasiblo, and say that .if ii succeeds it will bo tho most sensational •flight-in history.