NOT RECOGNISED
RECENT ALTITUDE RECTUS I)
LONDON, November 9
The Federation Aeronautiquc Internationale, in a bulletin discloses that the height record, of Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain does not rank as a world’s record.
The federation recognises only four world’s records—for 'distance in a straight line, for distance in a dosed circuit, for height, and for specif. The height record is still credited to thb Americans, Anderson and Stevens, who, in 1935, ascended 72,394 feet in a balloon.
[Squadron Leader Swain, .flying a special Bristol aeroplane, reached a height of 49,967 feet on September 29.)
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1936, Page 2
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