Show arat stratosphere 03 pher sphere F flight I 1 ali i A i 06 explorer it rising from the Strato bowl br t nat ini aier aphis P lety L U B ralf II 11 balloon of the national geographic society to so clety army air corps flight rose rohe to a record alti tulle luila of more than feet on armistice day wai ann tile the largi frac balloon eler eer built toy by capt albert W bt blevins tte evins who ito almi wn as tile olto ola erm serer and pl pi hotl by capt arii all anderson bills of the tha arroy air corps corpa tho the ballo lilli ono soared more than two miles farther into tile the upper air than the olli clil siti altitude tude reverl feet ninde ly by I 1 aleut comma commander mander ader T 0 W settle of till the dinsy anit and maj cluster chester lordney of if ilia marine corpis on oil 20 alz 1 M ilia balbon balb on nit all I 1 little record lelur to tl ti ft a right flight of tile the explorer it II win man fort feet mi ande ide by russian balloonists it if a tent lent were made from the link haj of tile the explorer it sooim men apul con I 1 find standing room it with splice to spare it will vill cover corn about two anti and two wo thirds acres of gro krousl uril or square fett it tins lina a capacity of 37 cubic feet of gas thin to la 21 per cent larger than tile the capacity of tile the ix U clorer 1 used on the 1011 Nallon Isal lonal nl geographic army air corps saroto fuhere night flight and at that time the for 2170 lao it if fully inflated on a football rehl the Lip lorer woul I 1 cover inore nor than tile the total of the anil and ahmit of its length A hoelling ho illing more mora lhnn eleven hija hh anil and of wl etli and depth coull be luca easily inside it the ilia MB big IHK flag la Is made of fit cotton fa rented repeatedly with rut rub her until it la Is efla 1110 I 1 he ron eon doln dola find its if four and ono omi li atif lf top lond load of men anti and bid won from a cat enary blind annl or girdle cemented to the lower loer part of the balloon moored with seven miles of rope rop seven nilles miles of rope nough bough to reach from the earth to the stratosphere were vere escil to moor the hint long during its ita inflation find and until tile line of the take off iho 1 oon as aa inflated with hallum lium KI gus alch could not burn pr or explode instead of the hydrogen agns gns tiami in tho the explorer I 1 only about hanx cubic foet feet of lid be luin llull about 7 per cent or of the capacity wn vias lot let into the has bag at As AB the lie filloon rose it ft landd until at a bright it if about 12 malca mil it filled out the entire tal ill loon into tho the shape of a perfect sphere after the balloon became alhert cat cal unit and the lie hi hum continued to PI ex there was no nn ilmer it inger of the long baa because the rai gas escaped through four apan dices in the bottom I 1 ephe are arc culm lir fir like ln Irn cited clile nen 17 ault tone long anil and 7 fett in danin ter I 1 ihn lip izan in tie tic balloon was con strolled trolled by two valves of a ipe tn in anted by teens op aerated crated by compressed air somewhat na an air are operated tit th alleri wre controller cont rollel from with till in tile the pond gond IH ht they could bauw be ine I 1 to lot let gas escape from the tp tip vf tilt balloon when it was to b bilt lit lie ilia ascent temporarily or to brinten the deacent toward the gondola of tile tho I 1 explorer 11 II which housed the crew and scientific la Is a toll bli nine foot font til belble of nl at toy iny thin but strong atron near ly as strong a as steel the metal 11 1 in tile fehere Is in less lem glnn one r fourth arth an 09 heavy it til Is the morl Is metal alven I cn aluminum Is half again as heavy beay stich ruch extreme aig bitne s enabled the lie balloon to go eo of ft eigher I 1 in it its if ascent alinn bould tine lime boin tho the cn case te it if tie rondola gondola were acre mude of heavier metal new lightweight detal tills champion of the metal i Is a new lit bit of modern chemical magic it con 05 93 tier per cent pure one of the lightest of it substances the li Is obtained from thep hurle supplies of salt bait tiler ter or brine pumped from well ells at ml MI hand fland alach ly by the ilia dow chem test leal company it argart ar part hard and hilly like any othi metal when hen into the nat erial for the th ground or shaved into bit also con coin burn iab with a brilliant light it was wn used la 18 photographers photographer powder before electric were developed ve loped anil and in flares dropped by avla at during the horld orld war to illuminate tile the ground for anti PiRl to its light vel cht the th magneA luto alloy needs a thickness of only thre of oil an inch to give le it strength for the tha balloon ron gon dt dola it curried into the ilia stratis arnt sphere on the it a I 1 ibid rid of two nien men more than a ton on of apparatus and thousands to of f pounds of ball ballant apt in 0 its it withstood Ith stood stratum five units as greatt nil as it was as called U upon p on to bear during tile flip unlit flight dur ing the flight it was subjected not only to the ilia loud land but the train strain of air amilde that aua as far grenter than that outside bonalle alls of tile tho gon goncolo dolo are made mada of rolled litotes of to alloy welded toi together ether the alio hatchets are ara cap castings tings of the parro namo material tile entire till its metal floor hatch batch covers anil and a metal arm from which some boina instruments Instrument a acra ere suspended weighed sunny gunny calm and cold in the stratosphere it has beers been discovered continuous pilgrim with ith no storms Bt orinn clouds rains or togs foffa nutt nut it t tj ll about 80 89 do arnts below kirol also alfo in little paradoxical beghon of the upper air the ilia shy Is so u blue that hint it la in almouist 1 11 tick rk anil and sounds are ara strangely faint anil and fertile no ni ner on earth can equal ilia anil and calm or of stra tosi here daa a tile inn aun shines from rising to wiling every eiery day nith a un unknown knon on earth fur for thero there in 1 little air to dim its rny rays practically no ster vapor exists in tile the stratosphere so 0 o there can be no inn clouds to idiot rout out the ilia sun and hence no maln or fox fic tile th turbulent air currents nearer tile earth alwo also are wh isIng so 0 o stormi are ton non existent rut but e even 7 ell with tilts tills perfect wrath or cr overt ead cad the li Is fur far from bing nn an ideal vacation spot tnt it Is its a cold ssi hi tile desolate polar of if the earth A tempera ture lure of nearly 80 degreen below pero was wt recorded in nil im both on tile the firlit national uva oro tinny flight to the ilia sphere and in tile tha antarctic on the tha biond ayrd expedition and ami again on freher 11 the tie er r it II found ft a sli nilar the air li Is to thin in the sphere diore that lint it a ninn man I 1 boull aun sur rotillo and dlo dle thre it ariless artificially artin ddlly sup BUI lolled alth fill oxe gc n the togI latr to 1 one of the grooters fro earths nl rt oters a region of cold air 20 mike or more inore thick air 0 ir globe as the skin akin li an orange it hangi mime aboe the earth at a night ran ing from ten nilles at tie equator to sean grillea to in the lie latigu le 4 f tile title over tile the bocles it may lang lower lovier nelll its ian bottom la in the level led at which the air above he enath cicrow ing coldi r one knas it tint it tile the air grows colder as aa one clinch higher on a mountain or in an air plane and formerly bo be bleed tie coll collnot nesi steadily in n cleasel with la rut abolia 17 ari earm ago it vins found that ill tha ft denied to drop at a of seven to to ten an ellei annl nn I 1 remail tied nebout the hie same damp its a far up tip as could bo be measured WILI walli tiler ther ino meters attached to small balloons man live there the stratosphere agnay alnay abst etayo tit sit approximately the time low lov tempe ratu is because the beat lint flint its ita air absorb i Is in almost exactly balanced by tile heat bent it away avidly it Is t colder in winter minter than la a summer bummer but strangely rangdy tt nah it Is coller col lor above the equator nearer the poles A mart mal n wild lenly taken to abe tb e strat ofte OK here could no tnora more live than lie 10 could in the depths of the lie tea sea not only Is there much too little oxygen hiyet n to leep keel bilm alive but the of its boly would tend to expand because becoate the pressure inside ills 1111 body would he be far greater creater than that out side the crew of tile the li it was sealed in a pon doli and sup plied piled with ith air by nn an air unit i as Is hi abe b crew of a |