Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-28
Aviator Up 36,O2O Feet, Fell Five Niles

able to use his eyes, according to Dr. Howard Y. Dutrow, an eye specialist, called into consultation.
 The instruments on his machine re- corded the best story of the experl- -enees of the aviator in his flight to beat the record of Roland Rohlfs and bring first honors to the air forces of the United States army. The ther- mOmeter registered a temperature of 55 degrees below. centrigrade or 67 de- grees below zero Fahrenheit. Altitude figures from the paragraph reading in- dicated a height Of 37.000 feet and when calibrated by Captain Harrison w. Flickinger showed an official alti- tude of S6.020 feet.
 The mark set by Major Schroeder again gives him the record which Roland Rohlfs won from him July 90, 1919, with an official altitude Of 30,300 feet and later increased in a second flight to 1000 feet It also breaks the record of Adjutant Casale, 9 French pilot. who was credited with an official record. .>of B. 137 feet.
 Major Schroeder's first altitude rec ord. was made at Dayton, O.. Sept. IS,
 19d2 when he flew a Bristol fighting
 machine to an altitude of 2S.900 feet.
 Leaving the field at 10.45 o'clock this morning, Major Schroeder battled for
 tvc hours and five minutes against
 cranging air currents and in a bitter
 cold atmosphere until he reached an
 altitude of 96O2O feet.
 Riding alone, almost seven miles
 above the earth, in a polar climate and
 against a wind that blows always at
 100 miles an hour or more. Major Schroeder fought foot by foot to drive his plane higher.
 Officers Of the field say his machine
 must have fallen into tail spin. as
 ftl,erwise his plane would have col
 lapsed when he regained consciousness
 1n1 righted #. after the descent of , mere than five miles.
 The sudden change in air pressure from less than three pounds at 36.000 feet to 147 per cent. at sea level crushed the gasoline tanks on his
 plane and caused them to collapse, beside iolting Major, Schroeder out of his senses.
 The Moss suptrchareer is a device cG}1T osed of a gas turbine and centri- fugaI air compressor The turbine derives its pressure from the redhot exhaust gases from the Liberty motor. The power generated by the gas tur- biue is used to onerate the centrifugal
 ajr compressor at about 22, GOO revo1u- ti, ns ner minute, and the air so com l pressed is fed to the carburetor at the same pressure as the air at sea level. Thus the Liberty motor delivered 400 horsepower, even though at high alti- ! tude.
 Major Schroeder was dressed heavier i than any polar explorer who ever set firth. He literally was wrapped in flexible electric heaters. His flying suit was lined with the fur of Chinese l nuchwang dogs and between the fur
 and outer lining flexible electric heat i units corrected by silk covered wires Win tho dynamo of the engine heated the entire suit.
 n 2 like manner his beadqear, ] gloves and uocca sins were heated. Major Schroeder wore an oxygen G-2sl5 of his own design.
 Ca7tain Harrison ". F1irtfneer, rhios calibra ton officer of NcCoog , field slid Major Schroeders record world be first. sent to war department o;Feials at Washington and later to fHcials of the Aero club Of America i Nha Aero club Of America recognized
 f'T the Federo ton Aeronautiaue Inter- nationale, will be aslled-to certify the ! rcc0l to the world