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Show Post Faced Disaster Wiley Post, holder of the world's record for a flight around the world, says that twice during his recent flight, which lasted seven days, eighteen hours and forty-nine and a half minutes, he was on the point of "bailing out." Once, says the flier, when flying at an altitude of 21,000 feet, over the mountains of Alaska in a temperature tem-perature six degrees below zero and with ice forcing him down at the rate of one hunred feet a minute, he was faced with the threat of mountains 15,000 feet high and that every minute he thought he would have to fasten on his parachute para-chute and climb over the sides. The ether time was on his flight from Moscow to Novosivrisk, when he was on top of a fog for seven hours. The clouds kept getting high-r high-r and higher until finally there was nearly "four miles of fog bs-cculd bs-cculd hardly make up his mind to go down through the fog and was tempted to use his parachute but finally chanced a descent. He came down in a long, slow glide, expecting expect-ing a crash at any minute: Lut when he came through the clouds, he found himself two hundred feet above the ground. |