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...world air record made last week: Altitude for seaplane-Lieut. Apollo Soucek (U. S. N.), in a wasp-powered Wright Apache, 38,560 ft., at Washington; surpassing Lieut. C. C. Champion...
...sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that he might see when they be came frosted. He was Lieut. Apollo Soucek...
...slower. At 37,000 ft. frost formed upon his goggles. At about that time another airplane arrived?too late?at the airfield below, bringing another naval flier with a pair of electrically heated goggles that will not frost. The bringer of the goggles was Zeus,* brother of Apollo Soucek, coming from the Philadelphia naval aircraft factory...
From Medford, Okla., to Washington, sped a telegram of congratulation sent by John, father of Zeus and Apollo Soucek...