FOUR MILES HIGH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20271, 2 December 1927, Page 13

FOUR MILES HIGH.

(From Ocb Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 19. Mrs Elliott-Lynn, the well-known woman air pilot, created a new world’s height re. cord for light aeroplanes by piloting an Avro-Avian two-seater ’plane, driven by a 90 h.p. Alpha engine, to a height of 19,000 ft, or nearly four miles above ground. She went up at Woodford Aerodrome, near Manchester, carrying a passenger, Mr Barrett, one of her friends, and a sealed barograph. When she was nearly four miles above the earth Mrs Elliott-Lynn entered a cold zone of upper air, in which the temperature fell 20 degrees below freezing point. “ Before I left the ground,” she said on alighting. “ I had clothed yself very warmlv, having been warned beforehand that owing to a northerly trend in the upper air it would be bitterly cold. But even in spite of my extra clothing I felt the cold very much indeed. “The actual reading on my heightrecorder was 19,200 ft. 1 think'l could have climbed another 2000 ft but for a danger of oil-pressure trouble. When eventually I came down and passed through "the clouds again f found myself over the coast near Southport, more than 20 miles from Manchester.”