MAY OUTDO PICCARD
BALLOON MAY ASCEND 17 MILES
LONDON, Oct. 23.
The world’s.most amazing air adventure is scheduled to take place in England in the near future, when the two (Short Brothers, of the aircraft firm of Short Bros., Limited, will attempt to capture the world’s altitude record for Britain.
Oswald Short, one of Britain’s air pioneers, hopes to make a balloon ascent to a height of 17 miles above the earth, 10 miles higher than the famous ascent of Professor Piccard. For this project, the biggest balloon the world has ever seen lias been built. Attached to it is a great hall of a secret aluminium alloy, designed to provide the lightest of weight with the greatest strength. It will he hermetically sealed and large enough to accommodate three persons. . . .Special instruments for obtaining meteorological data will ho carried. Ibe investigation of stratospheric gales will he one of the primary objects of the expedition. The balloon is designed to travel upwards at an average speed of about 17 miles an hour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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