Jerney City, N J March 6
Climbing through cold blue skies
more than five and one half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan, Miss
Ruth Nichols. New York society
aviatrix who holds comat to coast
speed marks. vet an unofficial altt-
tude recerd for women today

The altimeter on her speedy
monoplane #howed nearly 30.04
feet The sealed barograph placed
in the plane by the National!
Aeronautic amoctation was im
mediately shipped to Waghington
for examination Tf {t shows 28 (174
feet or more, Miss Nichola will be
awarded the record now heki by
Elinor Smith, young Long Island
flier

Miae Nichola waa informed that
to attain recognition aw the record
holder she must beat Mier Smiths
mark of 27418 feet by more than
ON) fowt

She took off from Jersey City air-
port at 12.33 po m and waa aloft
*) minutes There was a 3) mile
wind blowing when whe circied the
city, #wung over Manhattan and
wtarted the long climb

“Everything went fine,’ she maid

The engine worked perfectly. I
did net suffer any discomfort”

She wore a flying #ult lined with
reindeer wkin and the cockpit of
her plane was heate! from the
motor exhaust She used oxygen ap-
paratus and had no diffleulty in
breathing even in the thin. cold air
at high altitudes. The temperature
at the top of her climb was est!-
mated at ™ degrees below zero
by Clarence Chamberlain, who
coached Mise Nichola for the at-

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|. derdey, ‘City, . March |, 6.
Climbing . through. cold Dlue skies
more than five and. one-half amiles
over Jersey and . Manhattan. today,
Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye,. N. Y., filer,
who holds‘ coast-to-coast speed
‘marks, set an unofficial altitude
record ‘for women. 4

The . altimeter. on her speedy,
Lockheed-Vega ‘monoplane showed
nearly 30,054 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane. by
the National Aeronautic Associa-
tion, was shipped to Washington
for examination, If it shows 28,074
feet or more, Miss Nichols will be
awarded the record now held ‘by
Elinor Smith, young Long Island
flier, :

. Up. 90 Minutes.

Miss Nichols was informed she
must.: beat. Miss ‘Smith's mark of
'27,418 feet by'more than 600 feet
‘to gain the record. ‘

«She took off from Jersey City
airport at 12:33: p. -m. and was
raloft 90 minutes. There was a 80-
mile wind blowing when she circled
the dity, swung over Manhattan
rand started thelong climb. .
- “Byerything went fine,” she sald,
“the engine ‘worked perfectly. |
did not suffer any discomfort.”

She wore a flying suit lined with.
reindeer skin and the cockpit of
her plane was heated from the
‘motor exhaust. She used oxygen
apparatus and: ‘had: no difficulty In
breathing. The temperature at the
top of her climb was estimated at
50 degrees. below zero by Clarence
Chamberlain, who coached Miss
Nichols. .

The. plane’ ‘was equipped with a
650 horsepower, “‘super-charged nine-
cylinder air-cooled motor. It is the
same ship in which she set east-
to-west and west-to-east trans-
eontinental records.
 