ALTITUDE RECORD
AGAIN HELD BY FRANCE
PRIZE AWARDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 10, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 10. The Central News Agouov’s Paris correspondent says that tho Aero Club has verified M. Lecointe’s aeroplane height-climbing record of 10,741 metres, and adjudged him holder of the world’s altitude record. M. Lecointe, accordingly, has received the Air Ministry’s prize of 50,000 francs for bringing the height record back to Franoe from America. In making his flight in August, M. Lecointe wore an electrically-heated fur combination suit. He began to use oxygen after 5000 metres, and would have gone higher than he did, but the oxygen supply showed signs of exhaustion. “Just how cold it was I cannot tell you,” he said afterwards, “for the thermometer burst at 40 degrees below zero. It must have been near 50.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11647, 11 October 1923, Page 5
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