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August 1943          Vol. XIII No. 8          20 pages

On Our Cover: This dramatic on-the-scene photo shows Boeing test pilot Bob Lamson attempting to revive Lieut. Col. W. R. Lovelace immediately after Lovelace had descended a record-shattering 40,200 feet by parachute. This and photographs on the following two pages are the first published pictures of the sensational jump. Photos taken during and after the jump were snapped by radio operator Cliff Dorman, who accompanied Lamson.

Inside Articles:

Leap from the Stratosphere
Could a flier bailing out in the stratosphere, parachute all the way to the ground and still live? Since the world record jump of 40,813 feet was made as a free fall, the question was unanswered. So Lieut. Col. W. R. Lovelace, outstanding authority on high altitude medicine and co-inventor of the most popularly used oxygen mask, decided to experiment on himself. Here is his story of his 40,200-foot jump, told for the first time.
(Dick Williams, pilot; Jim Fraser, co-pilot; Don Erchinger, flight engineer; Eddie Brown, parachute expert, Test Pilot Bob Lamson)

The More, the Merrier England.
By James McGlincy UP Correspondent
(Captain Oscar O’Neill, of Rio de Janeiro, Captain Johnny Swais, Major Sy Bartlett, Oscar O’Neill, Major E. P. Myers)

Want To Make A Test Flight?
(Test pilot C. L. Scott, Ground crew chief Ken Berrick, co-pilot Lawrence “Bud” Schibel,

Dear Joe
Writing messages on planes
(Capt. Frank Judd)

Million Milers
The Boeing 247
(Senior Inspector Tod M. Date)

Well Wheeled
Wheels at Boeing
By Helen Call
(Mel Murphy, Len Frodle, Verne Krusie, Tony Lombardo, Mildred Hesse, Joni Talbot, Marie Fylken, Dave Nurse)

Japan Still Holds The Bases
(Herb Hiatt, Dick Stith)

Tropical Rescue
A sequel to “Tropical Islands Aren’t So Hot”

“Flide Rule”
This is the story of a remarkable gadget which is a cross between, a flight computer and an engineering slide rule, hence the nickname flide rule. It’s made of ordinary cardboard, and covered with figures, inside and out. It’s riding on bombing missions throughout the world as an extra-and-valuable member of the Boeing Flying Fortress crews.
(Lt. W. G. Dixon and Capt. Frank Schwab, Garland “Gink” Morrison, May Belle Dietz)

Service Awards for July
(Agnes McWilliams, Alfreda Moss, Evan Nelsen, Jon Magnusson, Frank Marson, J. N. Sjursen, F. R. Clement, James Adams, John Rosene, Fritz Graff, William Strom, Leslie Dolan, Henrik Hansen, A. R. Archer, Andrew Dumbeck, Edward Neidermyer, James Moore, George Spirk, Arthur Adams, G. F. Boynton, Ernest Veilleux, William Hample, Marshall Foerster, Tom Culliton, Russell Cheatham, Edwin Reichle, Roland Jansson, Warren Wheeler)

Let’s All Pool Together
(Pixley M. Plankton)

Anywhere Wear
Boeing’s work clothes for women
(Elsie Clark)

Oxnard and Luna Fumblethumb

Everything Under Control
Renton Division’s central control setup
(Ewing Crawford, B. C. Anderson, I. D. Smith, P. J. Herlan, Lowell Sanders, Ruth Gaus, Marjorie Oleson, Gwen Hemila, Mary Quinlan, Lila Zgonc, Gwen Hemila, Mary English, Kathryn McLean)