Word: piccards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked...
...believe your readers would be interested in the letter which we recently received from Professor Piccard describing his balloon ascension reported in your latest issue [TIME, July 26]. I am attaching a copy of the letter, which seems to me one of the most interesting and dramatic accounts of its kind which I have ever seen...
...have done quite a bit of work with Professor Piccard in supplying balloons for his activities in the upper air and are greatly impressed by his courage and ingenuity. Of course the balloons with which he made his ascent are exactly the same thing as are used singly for sending up meteorological instruments to flash back radio signals of the weather conditions in the stratosphere. Three Government stations are now using them instead of airplanes for obtaining daily weather observations from the upper...
TIME'S thanks to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. for Professor Piccard's account of his Rochester, Minn, balloon ascension, which follows...
...JEAN PICCARD...