STRATOSPHERE ASCENT
Cosyns Drifts Across Europe
VIENNA, August 19.
It is feared that something untoward has happened to the two occupants of a stratosphere balloon which should have descended last night. The balloon drifted across Europe from the Belgian Ardennes to the mountainous regions on the border of Yugoslavia. It was expected to land in Bavaria aud was last sighted in Hungary, near the Yugo-Slavian border.
An earlier message from Brussels stated that Professor Max Cosyns, aceompanied by M. Vanderebst, began a balloon ascent in a stratosphere at 6.19 a.m. from Hourhayenne, in the Belgian Ardennes. He is not trying to beat the altitude record and he expects to stay in the air for fourteen hours.
A later message from Sinowjle, Yugo-Slavia states that the balloon landed at 9 p.m. on Saturday. Both occupants were alive.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 9
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