Professor Auguste Piccard, Hero of the world’s highest balloon ascent at Augsburg last summer, was honored at a banquet of the Swiss Aero Club held at the Hotel Baur Au Lac in Zurich, Nov. 14, 1931. From left to right are Dr. Erich Tilzenkampf, pressman on box flight to Lisbon, Professor Piccard, Voltz (Balloon Pilot) Captain Koehl, Atlantic flyer, Herter, pilot Wolgrohl, balloon pilot in an amusing episode at the banquet, when the principal guests “boarded” the stratosphere balloon basket! (AP Photo)

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