STRATOSPHERE BALLOON
RUSSIAN FLIGHT AGAIN FAILS.
GREAT VESSEL DISAPPOINTS.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright
Moscow, Sept. 21.
After repeated tests, involving several ineffectual attempts to leave the ground, the stratospheric balloon flight was again postponed. There is bitter disappointment at the failure of the attempt to reach the stratosphere in the world’s largest balloon. It had a capacity of 250,000 cubic feet and a diameter of 112 feet, but it rose only 20 feet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 7
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