Nonextensible balloon regarded by author as prototype satellite station that already exists, generally called balloon; nonextensible balloons are made of plastic film of polyethylene; it is flown with open appendix; turbulence effects; average polyethylene balloon flight is made at between 75,000 and 95,000 ft above mean sea level, and max altitude reached so far is 107,000 ft. Paper read at Science Symposium of Air Research and Development Command, USAF.
Balloons in stratosphere
Aeroplane
Aeroplane ; 85 , n 2210
1953
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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