Word: callizo
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...incessant smoker of cigarets, M. Fonck drinks no alcohol. To health, technical experience and adroitness he lays his war feats (126 enemy planes) and safety in civilian aviation. Last week. Pilot Callizo, altitude champion (TIME, Sept. 6), declared that while training for his heart-taxing ascents he cuts out tobacco as well as liquor, but includes "good red wine...
...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
...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 A. Macready...