BALLOON ASCENT
WORLD’S DURATION RECORD MOSCOW, May 17. (Received May 17, at 11.30 p.m.) Mademoiselle Alla Kondratieva, who is 24 years of age, won the world’s duration record for a strathospheric balloon ascent by severing 310.7 miles and staying aloft for 22 hours 44 minutes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 11
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