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Show LE GAGNEUX BREAKS ALTITUDE RECORD iilHaiiii M. G. Le Gagneux, the aviator, who the other day at Paris reached the tremendous height of 7,067 yards, more than four miles, when he broke the man-flying record for altitude, has given a graphic description of his feat and sensations. That his achievement was even greater than it at first seemed was proven by the official and corrected calculations made from the self-registering instruments which he carried on his marine monoplane. Le Gagneux has gone farther from the earth in a flying machine than any other. Le Gagneux says: "In two and a half minutes I was 1,500 yards in the air. In seven and a half minutes I was 2,500 yards up, and a little higher I flew into a dead calm. At an altitude alti-tude of 3,125 yards I found myself in a fog so thick that I could see nothing. noth-ing. "It grew very cold. I was warmly clad but I felt the chill keenly. The moisture turned to icicles on my face. Only by my barometers could I tell I was still ascending. At 5,020 yards I began to inhale oxygen, as I had been advised." |
