substratosphere

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Last winter Tomlinson made constant trips to the substratosphere in the single-motored Gamma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meantime, aeronautical science has its sleeves rolled up to attack the problem of full utilization of substratosphere speed potentials.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already air transports are being built with cabins in which, by supercharging, interior atmospheric pressure approximating that aground can be maintained at substratosphere levels.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the thin air of the substratosphere, the resistance would be mostly "skin friction"�that is, the push of air molecules against tiny irregularities on the body and wings of the plane.

From Time Magazine Archive

He couldn't be more than 15,000 feet from the front of the trail, and you can recognize any kind of an airplane 15,000 feet away in the clear air of the substratosphere.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.