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WRIGHT, Orville. Document signed ("Orville Wright"), countersigned by two other observers, McCook Field, near Dayton, Ohio, 29 January 1926. 1 page, 4to, stapled at top into a file of 8 additional letters and documents pertaining to the same record attempt, bound in original blue paper covers.
LT. MACREADY SETS A NEW AMERICAN ALTITUDE RECORD: 38,704 FEET.
At 10 a.m. on 29 January 1926, Lieutenant John A. Macready, piloting an experimental aircraft described as "Corps Observation No.5" powered by a 400 horsepower Liberty engine, sought to "establish a new altitude record for airplanes." Wright and two others served as official observers, and here certify that "the trial was made in one continuous flight and altogether in accordance with F.A.I. regulations. The start and landing were made at McCook Field." A penciled note at the bottom right-hand corner records that the record was confirmed: Macready had attained an altitude of 11,797 meters, or 38,704 feet, over seven miles above the Earth. But Macready had apparently not broken the world record of 39,586 feet, set in 1924 by the French pilot Gourdon Callizo.
Macready, the army's chief test pilot, made the first non-stop transcontinental flight across the United States (1923), the first night parachute jump (1924), made the first demonstration of crop dusting (1921), and at one time he was the holder of the world's altitude, endurance and distance records. While stationed at McCook Field he set numerous records, on one occasion reaching 40,800 feet in his open-cockpit aircraft.
LT. MACREADY SETS A NEW AMERICAN ALTITUDE RECORD: 38,704 FEET.
At 10 a.m. on 29 January 1926, Lieutenant John A. Macready, piloting an experimental aircraft described as "Corps Observation No.5" powered by a 400 horsepower Liberty engine, sought to "establish a new altitude record for airplanes." Wright and two others served as official observers, and here certify that "the trial was made in one continuous flight and altogether in accordance with F.A.I. regulations. The start and landing were made at McCook Field." A penciled note at the bottom right-hand corner records that the record was confirmed: Macready had attained an altitude of 11,797 meters, or 38,704 feet, over seven miles above the Earth. But Macready had apparently not broken the world record of 39,586 feet, set in 1924 by the French pilot Gourdon Callizo.
Macready, the army's chief test pilot, made the first non-stop transcontinental flight across the United States (1923), the first night parachute jump (1924), made the first demonstration of crop dusting (1921), and at one time he was the holder of the world's altitude, endurance and distance records. While stationed at McCook Field he set numerous records, on one occasion reaching 40,800 feet in his open-cockpit aircraft.