AERONAUTICS: Seven Miles Up

Some miles from Dayton, Ohio, he rubbed his nose, wondering if it was frozen. To the west, 110 miles away across the snow-covered country, he could clearly see the houses of Indianapolis; he could see Cincinnati 50 miles to the south, and Columbus 65 miles northeast. The temperature about him was 79 degrees below zero. He was Lieutenant John A. Macready, flying an XCO-5 in an attempt to break the world's altitude record, held by M. Callise of France. The seven miles that separated him from Dayton were miles of clear and...

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