London, Sept. 23.
The Royal Aero Club have confirmed the claim of the' British airman, Captain Cyril Uwins, to the world's altitude record.
Last week Captain Uwins, who the chief test pilot of a Bristol aeroplane company, reached height of 43,976 feet, well over ight miles, which exceeds the pre-"vious world record held by the United States by nearly 1,500 feet, The machine used was five years old and, before being brought home from China and reconditioned, lay in flood water in the Nanking aerodrome for a considerable time.
A. Bristol Pegasus engine was chosen for the attempt and Cap-. tain Uwins believed that he. could have flown even higher had not his petrol become exhausted."
Two sealed paragraphs placed by the Royal Aero Club in his machine before his ascent were afterwards handed to the National Physical Laboratory for examination. He wore electrically heated clothes, had an oxygen apparatus and flew through over a hundred degrees of frost.
Captain Uwins, who sustained-a dislocated' neck through a crash in the War, has in recent years done much experimental work in developing' aircraft and their engines.—~Wiireless Through Reuter,
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