"I gently topped out, 200 ft short of 88,000 ft. From there, Singapore looked tiny and I convinced myself that I could see from the very southern tip of Vietnam over my left shoulder, past the Borneo coast in my 11 o'clock, to the western coast of Sumatra
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RT @theohonohan: This book doesn't pull its punches about the artificiality of human flight in the stratosphere. "Stratospheric Flight: Aer…
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Fast, expensive cars are silly, so it should be easy to see that the same thing is true of supersonic passenger planes. Flying still has an aura of glamour about it, but actually spending time in the stratosphere is not comfortable. (See @ASobester's book
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This book doesn't pull its punches about the artificiality of human flight in the stratosphere. "Stratospheric Flight: Aeronautics at the Limit", Andras Sóbester (2011) https://t.co/koZ1vW6nhT https://t.co/pvgcXLqwsi