FLYING.
ALTITUDE RECORD; AVIATBJX’S CLAIM. Press Aesociatlon-Electric Teiegrapn-Coojrig' NEW YORK, Tuesday. ■ Elinor Smith, an 18-year-old aviatrix, who claims to have set an altitude record for women, revealed that she be-' came unconscious at 30,000 feet, anu drifted almost a mile towards the earth before she was able to seize the controls again. She lost consciousness when the oxygen tanks froze, and fell to 26,000 feet before regaining her senses. She then righted the 'plans and continued tho down journey. When she landed one altimeter registered 30,000 feet and the other 32,000. The record will not become official, however, until Miss Smith’s sealed barometer has been sent to Washington for calibration.
SYDNEY TO LONDON. SYDNEY, Tuesday. David Smith, aged 2-0 years, will begin a flight to London from Mascot during the coming week-end. He will use a Ryan monoplane, and will be accompanied iby ‘Walter Shiers as mechanic. The latter was a member of Sir Ross Smith’s crew which blazed the trail from England to Australia several years ago.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 March 1930, Page 5
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