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THE recent world's height record, for aero- planes, of 49,967 ft., set up by Squadron-Leader F. R. D. Swain, R.A.F., piloting a Bristol monoplane fitted with a special type Bristol Pegasus engine, has served to focus a certain attention upon the question of flights at great altitudes, and the possible advantages to be derived therefrom.
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Stratosphere Flight. Nature 138, 676–677 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138676a0
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