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STRATOSPHERE PLANE ORDERED. BRITISH AIR MINISTRY DECISION. By Telegraph—Frew Assn.—Copyright, Rec. 8 p.m. London, Feb. 21. The Air Ministry, says the Daily Herald, has ordered a big plane designed to conquer the stratosphere. It will quickly climb to an altitude of 60,000 feet and the pilot will be kept alive witii oxygen in a hermetically scaled cockpit. It is believed a speed of 800 miles an hour .is possible in ratified air but a perfect stratosphere craft has thus far eluded Italian, French, American and German experts, and British designers have been working on the problem for four years. •‘The experience gained,” says the Daily Mail, "may enable the construction of a military machine of sufficient range to reach any part of the Empire without alighting on foreign soil. The Air Ministry is also constructing a long range aeroplane in the hope of recapturing the distance record from France.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1935, Page 5
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