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THE STRATOSPHERE PLANE READY FOR PIONEER FLIGHT. BERLIN, September 20. The world’s first stratosphere areoplane is ready to commence its pioneer flight in the thin air region 10 miles above the earth, hitherto penetrated only by Professor Picard’s balloon. The machine has been built in the strictest secrecy at the Junkers Works at Dessau. Its wing span is 85 feet. It has an airtight cabin, with reinforced walls. The designers are confident that it will be the forerunner of a fleet of machines capable of speeding through the stormless upper atmosphere, thus rapidly linking Europe and America. AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND KINGSFORD SMITH HOPS OFF, MELBOURNE, September 21. (Received Sept. 21, at 8 p.m.) Air Commodore Kingsford Smith left this morning for Oodnadatta and reached Parafield aerodrome, near Adelaide, in four and a-half hours. He landed to have a defective oil-feed pipe repaired, but he resumed the journey half an hour later.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21446, 22 September 1931, Page 7
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