The book of the sky; a résumé of personal experience and observation (1922)
Luckiesh, Matthew, b. 1883 · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company · leaf 60
for thosewho yearn for the fairyland of the clouds, but twolords of the air ascend for a trip into their aerialkingdom. The earth below is of interest in itsvariety of dull colors which become duller orgrayer as they ascend, leaving more and more ofthe sunlit haze beneath them, but this… … THE THUNDERSTORM 35 of haze which is encountered in oblique vision. Noearth horizon is visible owing to the accumula-tion of smoke and dust-haze carried upward bythe convection currents induced by the hot earthbelow. Then at an altitude of about one mile ahorizon appears; it is that of the floating…
Atmosphere, Upper · Clouds · Aeronautics
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