ALTITUDE RECORD.
AWARDED r l'o CAPTAIN GRAY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. WASHINGTON. Nov. 15. The National Aeronautical Association has officially credited Captain Gray with the world’s altitude record on the recent balloon flight which cost him his life. The ’ Bureau of Standards. which calibrated the instruments, informed the association that Gray rose 42.470 feet before he accidentally cut the oxygen tube which kept him alive. The association will ask the International Aeronautic Federation also to accept the record.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 November 1927, Page 7
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