Show strato stratosphere sphere balloon s k antio ak p f T 0 4 4 N V J K 4 al a tr major kepner and captain stevens talk it over Pre prepared parel 1 by national society am inkton IL D C NN service boltl on the worlds largest W free balloon will be ba tided in tho the national geographic society united states army air corl ri 9 j flights Is well muter if A way ay at the 0 ar zeppelin s plant tit nt akron ahron ohio rile balloon will use two ONO find n nil it third acres of 0 cotton cohon fabric I 1 m in gilted lilted lil ted with alth abber I 1 in rl con strutting ting the bug bag and it will li 1 have cuban a of cubic e f lct of 0 gas BUS when the Jal balloon loon ilses aiom the earth only partly inflated it A will ill tie he shaped like a gigantic exclamation point with the round gondola cepro benting the period As the gondola leaves the ground the top 0 of f tho the bag will be feet above it ap the height of a 27 story 0 ollace building when the bag b comes spherical in the thin air of the it will ila ha large enough to enclose an 11 story build ing or of height ind of equal width vI ItIl the ascent in which it Is hoped to reah the highest point to m which it la Is practicable rot foi a 0 balloon to lift it a nian man will be made in ili the united states the purpose of the light flight Is to clear problems of the upper air alint nio still puzzling science it la Is estimated estimate thit it will ill rise to ft a height of more than 15 miles above sea level tile hie alist ascent will aill be made in june by capt albert Y stevens noted aerial obi observer erver and photos rapi rapier or of the tha army air corps who nho conceived the project and maj VI 11 ilam ham aciner balloon expert of the arma ami air corps if this flight Is sue suc cess ful the same balloonists will ill make a strond sit end ascent in ber in to check anler similar conditions scientists to give aid ro fo dase it in tohaid to tte tie title plans and equipment and dl di avet studies of ohp th data collected collect cl el nr dr gildert grosvenor pi evident of tile national geographic society lins lifts fornies ft committee of out Arner lenn its I 1 nethers me 17 dr r I 1 i man J briggs d director I 1 r ec t 0 r states bureau of standards chairman dr 11 V coville united states department of agriculture con acar N eston estover er assistant chief united states imy Alir corps capt it S patton director united states coast and geodetic survey suney dr NV r P 0 swann bartol research ne foundation franklin institute ila ia dr flavil IC it id trover department of physics cornell un hersity and member research council american Amerl cin assoria tion for the advancement of ski ence dr charles 11 1 K X MOPS diree tor research laboratory lab orator 11 istman hodik company dr charles 11 harln chief of united states weather eather A bureau anil and dr john oliver in goice 1 fit lonal geographic so alty rhe huge balloon to t f e used in the accents ascents will AM have hate a gas cap capacity nelty five times that of the bag in chuh commander settle established his II 11 mile record last NoNe boemler No emler niler and nearly three ani a halt half times that of the soviet balloon which I ilch in septem ler ber roa ro a nemly neaily 12 miles above the it iirth the conict point at wl illi the bal loon in will take tabe to the air hns hai not been selected but it N will ill probably bly be in tile northern great plains region such a choice it Is pointed out will nil give ample room for drift to the northeast east or southeast and a landing in open country so that the bag can he be salvaged the completed plans for the ire are due to the efforts of cap tain stolen steen who has gither eddita dita during ohp past eleven mouths ill dl retted toward the uie in strato esthere flights of tile larget largest balloon which aich it Is to find an ascent to the highest point to A aich it Is iq believed possible for a man to rne rise in a gas bag alth with hope bope of a safe landing the mere attainment of altitude however Is not a mary object of the ascends ascents it Is de desired dedred dred to reach tile the attain able height beight above the earth in or tier nor that conditions chete can be ob cb served 1 stevens has experience I 1 captain stevens has haj itel tile the lower le levels els of the str sir phere by ane on numerous occasions occa alons and alio hns has served as observer on an a number of army balloon slona along during hla his high alti altitude tudo di n lug ing he lins lifts collected much sel data in ili a flight over dayton ohio in october 1028 8 lie he reached an al of 39 feet and outlined the alie only COMIl etEl mord act ord of titer luoin eter ever ninde in ill ameilla showing on oil the sinie day the temperature gradient in ill the region from tho the earth to the sarito other such records rewords of tern tell lein front from the earth to nn fin ill al of approximately SOW foot feet Is one olle of tile the objectives or of tile 1931 arcenis such data aill ft bo be el eti etieene ti eine ly va luaLle in weather either vv studies another profet of frill of bauce will be tile the of san samples ivIes of oe stratosphere air at feneran levels specimens ft aill bo be and studied later in in ail I 1 chemical laboratories many objects object of flight the agenda corsel for acl entitle data to be collected during the ascent contains 14 other items varying from high level photography and the ascertainment of the elec conditions of the air at i lail ail ous oua levels to cosmic ray studies and efforts to determine concen the mysterious ozone lay er of the upper air which some be acl enlists assert is all that saves safes life on the earth from destruction by bv ultra short light rays Is 13 thought to lie far above the highest point that can be reached by a manned balloon ballo it Is 13 hoped hoA however ever that eNi evidences dences of an increasing ozone content of tl tie e air can bo bf delete de I 1 15 miles up till in order to house the many anany inspru ments find and automatic recording de vices that will nil be taken aloft the balloon w mill hive attached to it a spherical gondola of light eight feet four inches in I 1 this diameter la Is one foot nn an I 1 a tl ti ird greater than that of fie gondolas by professor card find and lom com mander settle and will ill brolle a cubic capacity capart moro more than tice as great the instruments inane of blell tlell designed and modi modinea fled by captain tin stiens ns its a result of trials luring during high altitude flights will ail to ie larel automatic leav leaving ing observer an I 1 pl pi vt ct free to take tabe up tip the ninny many antl aties in the goil gondoli loli that will ill re quire attention k duall auml er ff f aln camer calems is using motion picture film will automatically and mireles il re id dials and clock faces jubul tan couRly at frequent Inter intervals vils kenners Kep ners fine record maj illiam Nl V r P hepner who N will ill pilot the stratosphere balloon th lis one of the outstanding balloon pi lots of the united statts statis army lie served in the orld war in the alie in fantry and was decorate 1 by both the Ante american rican find and trench french armies for exceptional services bernices lie ile holds four medals I 1 legall calu of honor flonor croix de guerre with talin I 1 aim distill gulshen anice sn alce cross an anil gool conduct modal united states nin mn one chips ile he has iaan nil an of the air corps since 1020 1920 and laid tie tt rating of airplane pilot airplane ob seier nil ship pi p lot as well nell as balloon pilot aud and ob gerier ile he was its winner of both the ni n i lional and intern atlon it I 1 all a races in ing the lite 11 field trophy find the ang ing wert of trophy lie ho was ills it a mate of r P Ps endahl of the los log angeles ind of commander settle fo three 3 P irs tit at I 1 akehurst ale hurst r kepner lot lio Is a nail cote as rold airship allot hot ile he lived on the los ais klige log as as ag elshant navigator and 1 p I 1 training from the german boppell crew cre ile he the inq i sent rigid airship it in I 1 ms ard and i was the fart to I 1 allot hot an all jitni m tal airest lp ip in 1 ij captain steens hii hns mile annu merable erable in agh pi 1 irni arni h some of them bv the i 0 r t intern red nis shanin sh ovin infill a i pink more than 00 M roi mil rr fr ill the cam ora era TA two 0 of hl his I 1 I 1 t ram ral h of ex ei tra ordinary to 11 ral rn h r and astronomers are ill aie ono tilen liken from a pinn 1 OM 00 ret fp opp oner leu trill argot tit a Is iq tl tj i fielt evir mile 1 I im rally tile the caim cumi it irp iro f tile eirtle e irti the mothr m nit i li if il tin an nit lift u 1 of ctet over s t ut orn rn M ip it in augill V 11 d ill alp ilp only ill ahot r hot graph walh aih shows shou tip rip faiq B elar front of the moc ann n s s w n the arth tarth oc currii 1 in an n e ill e of tl if e sun |