Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-28
|h|RPLANE FALLS SIX MILES AFTER MAKING l NEW ALTITUDE MARK Major Schroeder Ascends
 37,O00 Feet at
 Dayton FIJER UNCONSCIOUS HAS NARROW ESCAPE k,, hut Frozen When He Hits Ground, Army Man Loes, Regains Con- sciousness Thru Condi-
 tions.

paytcn, O., Feb. 27.-zMajor Ru- holph Schroeder broke the one-man Record for altitude held by Roland Rohlf, when his Le Perre plane klimbed 97,000 feet (estimated) over bayton today. In the flight Schroe- Hers oxygen tank gave out and his thio fell six miles before fighting |tself. The gas tank burst, making
 fan behind the falling machine, Which was taken here for comet. Ihe temperature at this height was $5 degrees below zero. He fell with |n 2,0OO feet of the ground before re- Raining consciousness sufficiently to fight his machine. Major Schroeder Eas temporarily blinded, and is now h local hospital. His condition Is not serious.
 l For brief time residents of Day. Ion were sure meteor had appeared |n the sky. They had mistaken he trail of vapor escaping from the nachine as it speeded downward for
 Stranger in the heavens"
 Thousands of persons gazed sky yard watching the plane, which had Sscended two hours before.
 Major Schroeder lost conscious hess when his machine had reached a height recorded by instruments as )e,020 or 5,020 feet higher than the Worlds record established by Roland Rohlf last summer.
 l When rescuers picked Major Schroeder up his eyes were frozen thnt and his limbs were numb The instruments on his machine
 hnrded the best story of the ex-
 Ghences of the aviator in his flight b the record of Roland Rohlf and Sring first honor to the air forces of khe United States army.
 1 The thermometer registered a Temperature of 55 degrees below zero Gentrigale or 67 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The official record shows 36,020 feet, new worlds &fcord and a variation of less than l1DD0 feet.
 fhe mark set by Major Schroeder gain gives ghim the record which Rohlf won from him July 20, 1919. Fith an official altitude of 30.300 Leet and later increased in second Eight to 1000 feet. It also breaks khe record of Adjutant Casale, a French pilot, who was credited with en unofficial record of 33,137 feet. Inventions Help.
 Officials of the field say his ma- fhine must have fallen into a tail Ppin otherwise it would have col |apsed when he regained conscious pess and righted it, after a desent of hore than five miles.
 The sudden change from less than fhree pounds at 36,00O feet to Ii z bounds at sea level crushed the gasoline tanks on his plane and caus- fd them to collapse, besides jolting Halor Schroeder to his senses. Modern inventions unthought of Peforc the war not only made Major Pechroeder's air voyage possible, but elso enabled him to return with a Pcientific record of the flight. hls machine was equipped with a MoSs super-charger and was the pame as used August 2,e1919, when pe broke the worlds speed record Py flying 108 miles an hour at a felght of 18,4OO feet.
 The Moss super-charger is a device Composed of a gas turbine and cen krlfugal air compressor, The tur- Plne derives it's power from the red pot exhaust gas from the Liberty notor. The power generated by the
 as turbine is used to operate the centrifugal air compressor at about .oo0 revolutions per minute and the
 IT compressor is fed to the carbure- Major Schroeder was dressed heav- er than any polar explorer who ever Eet forth. He literally was wrapped |n furs.
 His flying suit was lined with the ur or Chinese Fuchwang and be- tween the fur and outer lining, flex-
 nie elastic heat units connected with
 FIX severed wires with the dyna-
 o o1 the engine, heated the entire
 m like manner his headgear
 loves and moccasins were heated. He 3ign. ' w"
 Captain Harrison w. Flickinger
 nei olficer of McCook Field, said
 a1or Schroeder's record would be
 lst sent to war department off
 ais at Washington and later to of-
 S4T of the Aero club of America
 Aero club of America, recogniz-
 W the Federation Aeronautique
 sernatlonale, will be asked to cer-
 iy tne record tos the world.
 anks to be Used