Word: callizo
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...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...