Word: stratoflight
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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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...
...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...
...First stratoflight was made in 1862 by two Britons, Glaisher & Coxwell, who landed safely after fainting...
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