MAN’S TRIP BY ROCKET
SHOT SIX MILES INTO AIR SECRET TESTS IN BALTIC LTEEi RISKED' ON JOURNEY. BROTHER. OF INVENTOR. 'United Press Ar»x:iation —By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Nov.‘s. The “Referee’s” Berlin c,orrespond=ent says a passenger-carrying rocket successfully completed a ten-minute [journey, thus idealising a dream of Jules Verne. The rocket was shot six miles into the air at a secret demonstration oil the Baltic island of Ruegen and Otto, a brother of the constructor, Hugh Fischer, risked his life on the extra ordinary journey. Otto entered a 24-foot torpedo-shaped steel projectile and was shot into the air with a deafening roar. Later Otto declared lie lost consciousness for a minute owing to the tremendous acceleration driving the blood from his head. The altimeter began to fall. “At 32,000 feet I opened the parachute attachment and began the descent,” he said.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 7
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145MAN’S TRIP BY ROCKET Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 7
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