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AMERICAN BALLOON ASCENT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright - WASHINGTON, November 21. The National Aeronautic Association to-day announced that the calibration of the sealed, meteorograph on the Explorer revealed that the stratosphere flight set A :new world’s record of 72,395 ft, The Federation Aeronautic Internationale in ; Paris will be requested to grant an international certificate for this figure. i RUSSIAN PLANE RECORD Moscow, November 22. (Received November 23, at 2 p.m.) ' .Vladimir Kokinacki, dressed in a furlined suit and carrying an oxygen outfit, reached 48,067 ft —-a world altitude record —in a small open cockpit, single seater aeroplane, lie exhausted his petrol aftelr, remaining 10 minutes at that altitdd6. The temperature was 76deg below zero. He sately glided to earth.
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Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 17
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