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...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...
Some time later a farmer was milking his cows when a gaunt, pleasant man with flowing hair, wearing a damaged white suit, stepped into his barn and said, "Good morning!" This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard. Once a chemist for Hercules Powder Co., Jean Piccard is now in the aeronautical engineering department of the University of Minnesota, usually manages _ to find advertisers who will pay for his flights. This particular morning he made a landing of sorts after a flight sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club in a unique apparatus...
...months Prof. Piccard had been talking of stratosphere ascents in which the lifting power would be provided not by one big balloon but a cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature...
...Copenhagen, Professor Auguste Piccard announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...
...time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...