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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Streltsov had built chambers in which he tested the ability of various animals to live at low pressures, translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles...
...championship" in 72 holes of match play. For two rounds Shute almost held his own, finishing the 36th hole 2 down, 72-72 v. 71-70. Then his wood game cracked while Cotton plodded grimly, steadily on, carding a brilliant 69 for the third round and spinning along at 2 under par when he finished the match, 6 and 5 at the 67th hole. Cotton got $2,000, Shute...
...went east in a canary-colored automobile. The young girl again studied at Columbia and at Harvard Summer School. She got into social service work, teaching soiled urchins at South Boston's old Denison House. One day the telephone rang and a voice asked her if she would go along as a passenger on a transatlantic airplane flight. The sponsor of the project thought it would be good publicity to take a woman along. Amelia said at once that she would...
...Earhart plane if the latter could have tuned its signals to a 500-kilacycle frequency. The plane's transmitter would have been able to send such signals if it had had a trailing antenna. Miss Earhart considered all this too much bother, no trailing antenna was taken along. Finally, the Itasca's, commander would have had a better idea where to look if the plane had radioed its position at regular intervals. But not one position report was received after the plane left New Guinea. In fact only seven position reports are known to have been radioed by the flyers...
...faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned back to the hill, entered another thunderhead, rode it for 21 mi., landed in Pennsylvania. Although a few daring pilots had tried it in previous years, this was the first successful...