Word: piccards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a mess!" cried irrepressible Jeannette Piccard. "I wanted to land on the White House lawn...
...months the most intensive preparations preceded the takeoff of the Explorer, second stratoflight in the U. S., seventh since Professor Auguste Piccard's in 1931.* Backed by the Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, the stratonauts planned not only to break the world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with...
Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
...went with her husband to an airfield in Detroit. With famed Balloonist Edward J. Hill they took off at 5 a. m., drifted nine hr., came down with a bump in a field near Thamesville, Ont. 58 mi. away. Bruised when her companions landed on top of her, Balloonist Piccard was more concerned about an angel cake she had taken along. "I really don't know what happened to it," she said. "We didn't have a chance to eat it. I guess it got crushed...
...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...