MYSTERY MONOPLANE
MAY BE FIRST TNTO STRATOSPHERE LONDON. April 25Britain will probably attempt tlg-s year to- bd the) first' country to send a: heavier-than-air craft into the stratosphere. For this purpose a monoplane is now being, built for the Air Ministry at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol, v
Within 100 yards of it, 3000 workmen are bulldins' aeroplane engines, at top speed. Scarcely any of them have ever soon the mystery monoplane. It. has an engine of entirely new 1 typo, which it is hoped will carry* it higher than, any plane has over flown. The -nltttude record- ■it has to beat is 47,386 .feet, set up' in 1934 by the Italian, flier Donati. At 50,000 feet the stratosphere itself . begins. The Air Ministry- hopes that the.new monoplane will, get somewhere near 60,000 feet. Somewhere above that height are airless regions, , where experts say hennetir cally sealed air liners could do fantastic speeds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12866, 21 May 1936, Page 4
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