STRATOSPHERE VOYAGE.
BELGIUM TO THE BALKANS VALUABLE RESULTS OBTAINED. BRUSSELS, August 19. A message from Ljubljana says that Professor Cosyns made a perfect landing, assisted by peasants, who were at first terrified by the balloon." .Professor Cosyns, says that he reached 16,000 metres’ height. They had no notion they were flying over Jugo-Slavia and thought they were over Czecho-Slova-kia. The P'rofessor is very pleased at the results of the flight. They investigated certain movements of the cosmic rays and reached important scientific conclusions. They were most alajmed yesterday when the radio broke down. They tried to send out SOS signals, fearing a drift to disaster. The balloonists dismantled the balloon this morning for return by rail to Belgium. The instruments are in perfect order. (Professor Max Cosyns, accompanied by M. Vanderelst, began a balloon ascent into the stratosphere from the Belgium Ardennes on Saturday, at 6.19 a.m. and landed at 9 a.m. on the same day at Sinowjle, in Jugo-Slavia).
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Wairarapa Age, 21 August 1934, Page 5
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