Word: barographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once the wave gets going, its front gets steeper and steeper and the air in the wave may rise more than a mile in a few minutes. This causes a sudden rise of barometric pressure that shows as a sharp jog on the chart of a specially sensitive barograph...
...moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept on climbing...
Because he is a Swiss citizen, Comte may not claim the South African gliding altitude record, which now stands at 21,000 ft. He will have to send the record from his sealed barograph home to Switzerland for any official recognition. In Johannesburg, however, South Africa's Champion Harry Lasch shook his head in amazement at Comte's flight. Official or not, "it was magnificent, and is going to be very hard to beat...