NASA pilots were to push the envelope to 10,000 feet.'' The earliest citation I can find was in the July 3, 1978, Aviation Week & Space Technology, in a report about an aircraft that had been designed for operation at sea level but was being called upon for higher flight: ''The aircraft's altitude envelope must be expanded to permit a ferry flight across the nation. All this one does is increase my puzzlement.'' ''Metaphors are supposed to help me see things more clearly, or in a new way. ''O.K., what's this pushing the envelope business?'' writes Robert B. Only the day before, a camera technician who was quoted in The Times giving his opinion of another comic, the Polish satirist Jan Pietrzak, used the same phrase: ''He is always at the cutting edge of what is permissible to say - he pushes the envelope, pushes the limits all the time.'' ''I ALSO WANT TO FIND the edge,'' said the comedian Will Durst to Stephen Holden of The New York Times.
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