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...gingerly smoothed out the bag, examined every inch for adhesions. After supper they started valving in gas. Soon the balloon humped in the middle, commenced to rise. By 3 a. m. with all the gas in, the bag was a swaying 300-ft. column glistening in the floodlights. The gondola was wheeled beneath. To the crowd along the rim above it looked as if everything were about complete...
...wind picked up the Los Angeles' stern, wrenched off part of the flatcar, left it dangling 30 ft. high, ripped up rails like so much spaghetti. Trundled back into her hangar by an emergency ground crew, the old "L. A." was found to be suffering from a dented gondola, broken struts, torn fabric. Newshawks found Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl far from sad. "The wind did the Navy a favor," he explained. "This is one of the very things we are studying. . . . The L. A. can take...
...addition to moving pictures of the preparations and take-off and of the movements of the balloon in flight several miles above the earth, Captain Stevens showed several photographs of the earth's surface taken at high altitudes through the bottom of the gondola in which the men were enclosed. Lantern slides pictured some of the processes used in the construction of a balloon and explained the highly complicated scientific and mechanical apparatus which the balloon contained...
...layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent...
Last January three Soviet balloonists were killed when their gondola broke loose from the bag and plunged to earth. Last July the $1,000,000 stratoflight of Kepner and Stevens in the Explorer, biggest bag in history, came to grief when the balloon ripped at 60,000 ft. The balloonists had to take to their parachutes and most of their scientific instruments were smashed to smithereens...