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Dick Merrill, the American Atlantic aviator who recently flew from America to England and back again with pictures from the Corona- tion received the honorary degree of Doctor of Aeronautica! Selence at for Pennsylvaniu Military College

his feat.

Stratosphere

Plane May Be Smashed

To Atoms

BY ELEMENTAL FORCES

Burbank, Cal.,

The United States Array's new stratosphere "Laboratory" plane inay be smashed to pieces by an elemental bombardment of metastable nitro- gen, a university scientist warned as the ship was secretly groomed for a text fight six miles above the earth. Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Associate Professor of Physics at University of California at Los Angeles, revealed his theory to the aviation world, "not in an hysterical sense-but just a possibility." He bases his obser- vation upon violent chemical rene- tions to modern nir-plane metals in the stratosphere.

The new plane, built at the Lock-

here

under heed Aircraft factory armed guard, is of special construc- tion, with super-charged enginca to maintain and a cabin designed constant internal pressure and with- stand temperature expansion and contraction above the six miles level,

FIRST TRIAL

It received its first trfal at normal heights. But when the ship climbs above the regulation celling, Dr. Kaplan believes the metastable nitro- gen may cause serious damage.

"Our experiments in investigating high altitudes indicate that in the stratosphere a high content of metastable nitrogen may be found and that it might set up a violent chemical reaction that would be seriously damaging to present-day

not #1 du airplane metals.

know what the

on reaction

airplane Duralumin might be, but we do know that metastable nitrogen, which has an enormous amount of energy in it, with releases its energy in contact aluminium."

The extent to which the nitrogen may be found and, hence, the seriousness of its potential threat to stratosphere fights, was not de- feymined by Dr. Kaplan. Ho reveal- rd, however, that laboratory tests have uncovered "plenty of 12" in RHW higher altitudes, where radio and aurora effects are active.

This area is estimated at between. 90 and 150 miles above the earth's surface.

"As fights in the true statosphere, above the sub-stratosphere, become nore assured, the aircraft Industry will do well to intensively study reaction of metals under laboratory conditions that are possible to repro- the effects," high-altitude Physicist warned.

duce

STRATOSPHERE ANALYSIS

He explained that already, he has under way an analytical study of upper altitudes, made possible by a of the Inboratory reproduction

This Ja П "carth's atmosphere." model which simulates atmospheric effects at

for varying altitudes analysis with a spectrograph, -

"Strange, but true, we know more about the atmosphere above the 40-mile mark than we do below that point. Little actually happens above it, but many, many complications develop between 10 and 40 miles above the ground. For this reason, study is advisable," Dr. Kaplan sald. lie hopes to complete the present phase of his work in time to report" it before the American Association for Advancement of Science Denver in June,

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