TO CONQUER STRATOSPHERE
BRITISH ’PLANE ORDERED. AIR MINISTRY’S PLANS. Doited Press Association —Sy Electric Xelegrapt Oopyrieht-t LONDON, Feb. 21. The “Daily Herald” says that the Air Ministry has ordered a big ’plane designed to conquer the stratosphere. It will quickly climb to 60,000 feet. The pilot will lie kept alive with oxygen in a hermetically sealed cockpit. It is believed that a speed of 800 miles an hour will be possible in the rarefied air, but the perfect stratosphere craft has thus far eluded) Italian, French, American and German experts, and British designers have been working on the problem for four yearsThe Daily Mail says that the experience gained may enable the construction of a military machine of sufficient range to reach any part of the Empire without alighting on foreign soil. The Air Ministry is also constructing a long-range aeroplane in the hope of recapturing the distance record from France.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 6
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151TO CONQUER STRATOSPHERE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 6
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