Word: fedeseemko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past six months Osoaviakhim (civilian aviation society) had been planning a stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim's airdrome outside Moscow one morning last week. By noon...
...such a point that it fell like a dead weight. 2) Ice weighted it down. 3) 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...
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