The book of the sky; a résumé of personal experience and observation (1922)
Luckiesh, Matthew, b. 1883 · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company · leaf 90
nyhours before it arrives, for the cyclone travels at amuch slower velocity, ranging from twenty tothirty miles per hour. As time elapses after the first appearance ofthese messengers speeding on the winds, theclouds gradually become denser and denser. Tothose skilled in reading the weather-signs,… … BEYOND AN OVERCAST SKY 61 is drizzling, the ghostly scuds are rapidly driftingbeneath the heavy nimbus at an elevation of a fewhundred feet. The aircraft with its delicate wingsis snugly housed and two airmen sit in the door-way discussing the weather prospects, Above thatdark heavy layer of cloud,…
Atmosphere, Upper · Clouds · Aeronautics
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