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A New Columbus of the SkiesA balloon ascent of more than It) miles into tlie air was mode on Wednesday of last week by Dr. A. Picard and lr. Kipfer, at Augaburg, Havana (Germany). It is claimed that their aacent into hitherto unexplored reigioni of the ikies dm* fariiiahed material of the utmost scientific value Results obtained will help to confirm tho Einstein theory, and data furnish©*! by their meteorological instruments “will give scientists all over tha world weeks of work aud months of calculations. Picard’s main purpose was to examine the upper regions of th© atmosphere in which it is believed that aeroplanes would bo able to attain hitherto undreamt-of speed, owing to the alight air resistance.The intention was to remain in th© air ouly seven hours, but the balloon drifted a great distance, and when the aviators finally decided to come down it took 14 hours to make the descent. They landed on a glacier in th© Austrian Alps. In tli© meantime, their friends in Augsburg, who had watched the balloon go straight up till H became a mere speck and finally altogether disappeared from view, believed that the aviators (owing to a mishap to their oxygen supply, or to th# cold) had perished; and that their balloon, with their dead bodies aboard, had gonu floating through space per hap# never to b© heard of again.
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Brisbane Worker
Brisbane, Queensland, AU
Wed, Jun 03, 1931
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