Russian 1935 Exploring the Stratosphere. flight air Stratospheric balloon rides

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We present to your attention a Russian Soviet book dedicated to the study of the stratosphere, flights to the stratosphere on stratospheric balloons and air balloons. The book was published in 1935 in Leningrad-Moscow, the state technical-theoretical publishing house. C
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Dust Jacket
. Pages 120.
Size 178 X 135 mm.
The author of the book is Daniil Osipovich Svyatsky Святский (1881 - 1940) - Russian and Soviet astronomer, meteorologist. Author of many books on astronomy, the study of the stratosphere.
Книга посвящена рассмотрению стратосферных явлений в атмосфере Земли, методам их наблюдения и научного изучения, требуемому оборудованию и техническим средствам для проникновения в стратосферу. Большое внимание уделено организации и осуществлению полетов: шаров-зондов, стратостатов и субстратостатов в 1900-х - 1930-х гг., выполненных в разных странах, в т. ч. и управляемых пилотами. Рассказано о полетах немцев Берсона и Зюринга, американца Грея, испанца Моласа, брюссельца Пиккара, Кипфера, советских стратонавтов Прокофьева, Бирнбаума, Годунова, американцев Сэттля и Форденея, подъеме советского экипажа Федосеенко, Васенка, Усыскина, закончившегося трагической гибелью, крушении `Барч-фон-Зигсфельда` и гибели немцев Мазуха и Шренка, полете американцев Стивенса, Кепнера и Андерсона и их эвакуации из падающего шара с помощью парашютов, полету Макса Козинса и др. Уточнены цели подъема, сообщены интереснейшие подробности условий полета, драматических моментов, оценены полученные научные результаты. Многочисленные рисунки, схемы, фотографии.
The book is devoted to the consideration of stratospheric phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere, methods of their observation and scientific study, the required equipment and technical means for penetrating the stratosphere. Much attention is paid to the organization and implementation of flights: balloons, stratospheric balloons and substrata balloons in the 1900s - 1930s, performed in different countries, including those controlled by pilots. It tells about the flights of the Germans Berson and Zuring, the American Gray, the Spaniard Molas, the Brussels-born Pikkar, Kipfer, the Soviet stratonauts Prokofiev, Birnbaum, Godunov, the Americans Settle and Fordeney, the rise of the Soviet crew Fedoseenko, Vasenok, Usyskin, which ended in the tragic death -Zigsfeld` and the death of the Germans Mazuch and Schrenk, the flight of the Americans Stevens, Kepner and Anderson and their evacuation from the falling balloon with the help of parachutes, the flight of Max Kozins, etc. The goals of the ascent were clarified, the most interesting details of the flight conditions, dramatic moments were reported, the scientific results obtained were evaluated ... Numerous drawings, diagrams, photographs.
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