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...nosed over. Rescuers rushed up to find the girl unhurt, walking about, crying hysterically. Such was the end of her attempt to regain the women's altitude record from Ruth Nichols, who soared to 28,743 ft. a few weeks ago (TIME, March 16). But calibration of her barograph may yet prove that Elinor Smith flew highest...
...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...
...circled upward, ever upward, one mile, two miles, three, four, five, six, seven miles. Another 1,000 ft. he climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world's altitude record...
Jean Callizo, French claimant of the world's record (40,820 ft.), last week lost his distinction. When he claimed the record, he was suspected; last week he seemed to rise to even greater heights, marked on his barograph as 42,650 ft. Suspecting officials had placed another barograph in his plane, unknown to Flyer Callizo, which registered only 14,764 ft. It is charged he inserted in the record-breaking barograph a sheet of paper with "42,650 ft." marked in invisible ink; when far out of sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made...
...queer, deep, dark blue of a cloudless and mistless sky; a far deeper blue than that seen from the earth's sur face. . . . I could feel the tightening of the contracting metal parts of the plane." (Contraction was due to intense cold). When his barograph registered 12,800 metres, Pilot Callizo descended, hovering at 500 metres, to collect his shocked faculties. After inspection of his instruments, officials credited him with having flown higher than any man- 12,422 metres (40,820 ft., nearly 8 mi., two-fifths of a mile higher than the U. S. recordholder, Lieut. John...