Word: barographs
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...only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer du Pont stayed up 5 min., won her "C" (soaring) license. Few days later she went up again, stayed more than 5 hr.. would have set a women's record had she carried a barograph. Official credit for a record went to Mrs. Dorothy Currier Holderman of Leroy. N. Y., who soared 4 hr. 28 min. and had a barograph to prove...
...Some instrument outside the gondola chafed at the shroud lines until they broke, thus allowing the gondola to fall free from the bag. One discovery was made, to heighten the honor of Aeronauts Fedeseemko, Oususkin &Vasenko as their ashes were laid away in the Kremlin wall. A logbook and barograph, still intact, showed that the balloon had climbed...
...Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force, the British fighting pursuit plane, equipped for service, has a ceiling of 28,000 ft. Pilot Unwins had to wait until his barograph was recalibrated to the barometric pressure prevailing that day before his record would be official. Present plane altitude record of 43,166 ft. was set by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N. in 1930. Wearing electrically-heated goggles. gloves, shoes and clothing. Pilot Unwins encountered a temperature of 68° below zero...
...record, after failing to do so on two consecutive days. The first day he flashed back & forth four times over the 3-kilo-metre course he was clocked at an average of 293 m.p.h. Then it was discovered that someone had neglected to install in his plane a barograph, necessary for official recognition of his flight. Next day he had the barograph but a quartering wind slowed him to 282 m.p,h.?.77 less than the necessary margin over the old record. On that day spectators feared he was about to crash into treetops at the north...
...Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford, Pa.; but because he is a German citizen he may not be credited with a U. S. record...