Stratospheric Flight: Aeronautics at the Limit by Andras SóbesterEnglish | PDF | 2011 | 228 Pages | ISBN : 1441994572 | 63.21 MB
The stratosphere is the highest layer of Earth's atmosphere where aircraft can still fly. The density of the air is just high enough here to generate lift on a wing or buoyancy on a balloon, so designing any stratospheric aircraft is a delicate technological balancing act for the engineer. Designing and operating an aircraft capable of conveying humans to the stratosphere is more challenging still: biologically, we simply do not belong up there.