RECORD FLIGHT.
BALLOONISTS’ THRILLS.
REACHED 19,000 FEET. LONDON, May 27. A Stockholm message states that tho American balloon Goodyear 111., which won the Gordon Bennett Cup raco this week, travelling 527 miles before it landed at Soeldeborg, had a most thrilling flight of 41 hours 11 minutes, which tho pilot, Van Orman, claims is a record. The balloon, was drifting over the North Sea at a height of 3000 ft, when it commenced to sink. Ballast _ was thrown out, and the balloon drifted over the Baltic Sea, where it was caught in a rainstorm. In order to escapo this, more ballast was jettisoned, causing the balloon to ascend to 19,000 ft. This compelled tho use of oxygon, after which the aeronauts found themselves on the Swedish coast, and, tho ballast being exhausted, they were compelled to land.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 172, 22 June 1926, Page 7
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137RECORD FLIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 172, 22 June 1926, Page 7
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