Show keeping up wi cien in e C e r v e science service service sky dog team 1 of 2000 balloons seeks stratosphere jean will attempt jop hop using new method denver now stratosphere records will be sought in an entirely now new kind of stratosphere balloon jean twin brother of strato pioneer auguste announced to the meeting of the american association for the advancement van cement of science here mr will undertake the long ascension under the lift not of a single giant balloon as heretofore used but with n sky isky dog team of 2000 small rubber pilot balloons of the type now used by the U S weather bureau for unmanned flights with light recording instruments since a single sounding balloon Is able to carry a half pound instrument ment to an altitude of twenty miles it Is obvious that 2000 sound abound ing balloons could lift an airtight air tight gondola weighing 1000 pounds to the same lofty position he said it Is my intention to construct such an assembly ps and to mako make scientific observations at the alt altitudes reached by sounding balloons before making such a flight I 1 intend to test the possibilities of the composite balloon by making in the near future an experimental flight with eighty sounding balloons attached to an open gondola on this experimental flight mr expects to be contented with the modest altitude of about two miles ile he added As a whole our new lighter than air craft if it works will work me like a very large dog team and the pilot will bo be the driver of 2000 sky dogs there Is a widely accepted story of a multiple balloon flight years yeara ago with a craft sold said to have been invented by two prominent early members of the american philosophical society in philadelphia published in franc not long after the jahe I 1 first balloon flights there it went into great gocpt and convincing d detail tall and was all a hoax but the story has persisted and is solemnly repeated in every history of aeronautics and in all the encyclopedias however multiple balloon nights flights really were made in both this country and nd europe during the so the proposal has precedents of quite respectable standing |