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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

From Medford, Okla., to Washington, sped a telegram of congratulation sent by John, father of Zeus and Apollo Soucek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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