PROFESSORS EXPERIMENT WITH HIGH ALTITUDE AIRPLANES

Development of substratospheric air travel on a commercial basis may result from investigations conducted by Harvard scientists in cooperation with representatives of private airlines and the government, and revealed yesterday.

Army and navy officers, doctors from Mayo clinic and numerous air line officials conferred secretly with Ross A. McFarland '27 assistant professor of industrial research; David B. Dill professor of Industrial physiology; and several other scientists on the results of the investigations Saturday and yesterday. They refused to comment on their discussions.

Two Mayo Clinic doctors flew to the conference in a specialty built substratospheric plane equipped with a new type of oxygen mask.