AVIATION RECORD
fr HEIGHT OF OVER SEVEN MILES. NEW YORK, September 29. At Dayton (Ohio), Lieut. Macßcady set a new altitude record in a Lapere aeroplane, reaching the height of 40,800 feet, in the same machine in which Major Schoder made the previous record of 38,i80feet. Macßeady was 107 minutes in the air. The era ft became unsteady, lurched, and began to fall to earth, but recovered. The temperature was 58 Fahrenreit below zero.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14764, 1 October 1921, Page 7
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74AVIATION RECORD Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14764, 1 October 1921, Page 7
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