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The heat of Noonsleep and Afternoonday was only a tiny bit blunted as they descended into the Gengee, but they had lost only a few hundred feet of altitude, just enough for him to notice
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"I think when the shuttle flew around in that higher altitude circle it put a fear into those beasts that wasn't going to leave them til they'd run to the next climate zone," Alan said
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Daniel watched as they gained altitude
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Of course the observatory itself had to be pressurized, it was almost seven miles above the Kassikan, going outside without a pressure suit and breathing hose was impossible at that altitude, but even the inside of the observatory was at the pressure of three miles above the Kassikan, the limit of human life
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After lunch and some more long reports to the Angels, Alan continued on thru more of the mountain forest, continuing to the northeast, continuing to lose altitude till he was well below sea level
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He had lost a lot of altitude in the last two days, but the nights were long and still might get pretty cold
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The more altitude he could lose, the better
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All you need to know is the direction and the elevation you want to go then dial in a new direction or altitude and press the knob
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Once at cruising altitude Flavio entered the route into the Flight Management Computer (FMC)
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Neither of them had been on these streets before since the wealth required to live here was as high as the altitude
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Once off the bridge, the avenue became a khume again and lost altitude in the buildings of Imoneea Island
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Needeen's brew was pretty sharp, but you could put on some altitude with it, something that mattered in the clear season
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Klowa was beginning to learn that this girl did take her yaag pretty seriously and putting on altitude was something she had every intention of doing
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Foemong was quite social and picked up many other pretty passengers until they were too high in altitude up the Cutaiaa for the floater to lift more than the two of them
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They could never fly very high above this lake, it was at the limit of the floater's altitude with this much weight aboard
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Being at the limit of the floater's altitude forced them to follow the coast
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This was an aerial view of the city from far above any altitude the floater flew
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The air was sharp at this altitude and this time of the week
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It is a path of disappointment and hard knocks - knocks that become increasingly harder as you gain altitude
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At this altitude it was no more than the size of an ant
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found out the altitude of the space station and where you
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It’ll pick up human heat from this altitude with no problem
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4, altitude twenty thousand metres, away from terrestrial monitoring systems
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The lodge was at four thousand metres altitude
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Pretoria sits at high altitude and the air was thin, so those of us who came up from the sea level struggled in the beginning to adjust
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I remember when we first met I asked her about the flight characteristics of the F18 Super Hornet versus, say a MIG 29, and she wanted to know at which altitude before she answered
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“I’m holding a little down-stick on it, Robert, and I’m watching our altitude as best I can,” I yelled, and watched his head bobbing in the front cockpit
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To turn is to lose altitude
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’ With more powerful engines, tuned to run at high altitude, we would go faster, generate more lift, and have more positive control
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We may be using it at high altitude, on an experimental basis
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“At that altitude our indicated airspeed was about one-hundred-ten,” he added without hesitation
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Holy shit! There were two directly behind us, at about half a mile, and at the same altitude! I picked out half a dozen more in front of us, and then some on our right, way up high in the sky
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Its promise hovered in the air with a humid, musky smell even at this altitude
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“How quickly do they achieve that altitude?” he asked, curious in spite of himself
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The Camels and the enemy must have been at the same altitude
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For example; there are six different kinds of altitude
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There is indicated altitude, the uncorrected height in feet as read by the pilot directly from the dial; then there is actual altitude, or elevation of the terrain expressed in feet above sea level, then true altitude, this is actual height of the aircraft above sea level; then there is absolute altitude, which is the actual height of the aircraft above the terrain, you get that by subtracting elevation from true altitude
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Then there is pressure altitude, which is the setting adjusted to the standard atmospheric pressure of 29
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The density altitude is pressure altitude corrected for temperature variations
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I made it quite clear they were to remain in the ‘cone,’ where they could be effective as air cover, and yet stay within ‘gliding range,’ of the aerodrome at any given altitude
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Really; it’s just a question of how much altitude it gains or loses as it climbs and dives
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They had intelligence reports from insiders, high altitude air surveillance pictures and night vision photos taken from outside the perimeter, showing that the factory was not what it appeared to be
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From our altitude, we couldn’t see who was who or who did exactly what
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Bert’s plane began to lose altitude
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“Just a dribble, Bernie,” I said, and he made a check of the time, the speed, and the altitude
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During a low pass at three hundred metres, an altitude which barely registered on the instruments, he dropped a series of flares a kilometre from his improvised runway and set a few small, smoky grass fires to indicate wind direction
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He watched in fascination from the plane’s tiny window as they gained altitude, and had some understanding of how flyers could become addicted to their trade
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It was even showing a little curvature at this altitude of about a half of a mile
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I first noticed it at about fifty or seventy-five meters of altitude, and as it fell towards me, just out over Lake Huron, I noticed that there was a second object, also falling towards me
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Was it a suicide/homicide? A transcript revealed the Egyptian copilot repeating the words, “I place my trust in God,” eleven times, as the plane lost three miles’ altitude in less than a minute
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Not only were we rather high in altitude, sapping our endurance, but also, the dry, rough terrain was hard on both men and horses
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Buzun had been right about the coca leaves; without them it was hard to breathe at this altitude
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Jaden is flying at 812 mph and approaches the shore at an altitude of nineteen feet
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He again climbs in altitude
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The Blackbird flies faster and gains altitude
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Jaden sees the SR-71 pilot is far over him and he increases speed and altitude
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Another octopus quickly loses altitude and latches onto the back of the shark that has its member in its mouth
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and altitude afforded only a few precious seconds to try and rectify the
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sort of altitude before, but the difference was that she was seeing
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from this altitude could give a mind numbing
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The “short version of PSL’s false firing rationale” was that I had hacked off a minor contract specialist (not THE ACO) at NASA’s Wallops Island, VA, facility which administered PSL’s sole source high altitude balloon contract that was performed from a site in SE TX (Palestine—nothing holy about it or them)
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I sough, thereby, to apprise him of the exact facts of what I wrote, what the ACO said when he called, my reaction to it, which was not relayed to anyone at NASA, and my incredulity that this incident, which in my mind had blown over, could have any impact on the outcome of the high altitude balloon re-competition
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That includes the exact distance and direction, accounting for curvature of the surface of the world and differences in altitude
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For safety’s sake, I will give you a reference location at an altitude one hundred and fifty meters above the north slope
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When your opponent’s altitude advantage is greater than a hundred meters, even those will not work, and you are helpless before them unless you can cast magical attacks over that distance
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“Always a favorite of visitors to Latrel!” Reen laughed as they gained some altitude and speed for the quick flight there
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He took them there, to an altitude of three hundred meters above the port, and brought a two meter thick, thirty-four meter wide disk of the Focus Mountain reflector with them
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�Phil Travers, Captain, USAF, AKA Phil the FAC, callsign Copperhead Zero Three, flew a small gray Cessna observation airplane, an 01-E by USAF nomenclature, at an altitude of three hundred feet on a heading of 354 degrees halfway between Tan Son Nhut and Bien Hoa with a passenger in the back seat
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He did this for about five minutes noticing to his dismay that the air�speed would fall off to 75 mph or climb to 105 as he tried to hold his altitude
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"Cripes," he said over the intercom, "I can't hold my altitude
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He set up his switches, dialed 75 mils depression in his gunsight pipper, lowered the nose to achieve ten degrees dive angle as verified by his attitude indicator, adjusted his throttle to attain 400 knots indicated airspeed, crosschecked altitude as he approached release height, maintained a slight crosswind compensation that he would kick out at the last second, and watched his pipper drift up to the target
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He horsed back on the stick in violent reflex, wheels brushing leaves, and felt the first nibbling shudders of a stall as the tiny plane traded what little airspeed it had for barely enough altitude to keep from crashing into the tree tops
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Not only control, but own all the air below that altitude to include close air support, transports for aerial resupply--be it by landing or by parachute, and reconnaissance
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Let the USAF keep the air superiority mission and the strategic bombing mission and high altitude reconnaissance mission, the Army ground commander wanted immediate and complete control over the air power that supported his troops
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Usually his pulse rate was in an indirect ratio to his altitude
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High altitude, low pulse; low altitude, high pulse
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"We've only got twelve more minutes and that's only if we stay at altitude until we're right over the field
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The plane, a Marine F-4B with Chu Lai markings, was steadily losing altitude
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He said the base altitude was 13,000 feet
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Once in a while, a new commander, anxious to make a name for himself by changing things, would challenge the Wing memory and fly a particular formation or approach altitude that had already proven deadly
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From that altitude, they can count the number hairs on your head, or your whole body, for that matter
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At that very moment I heard the sound of helicopter rotors in the southwest, where a small light at low altitude approached toward us
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These thoughts and emotions swept Court in an instant leaving him with the realization how much he loved and needed his airplane and the altitude and the sky and his wingmen and the pure sense of flight, and how exhilarated he felt while flying a combat mission, and the joy he felt upon his triumphal returns to base
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When he expressed his feelings, they moved to the horizon, with the exception of two brightly flashing strobe lights, one directly in front of the other, which were approaching us at a low altitude
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For safety’s sake, I will give you a reference location at an altitude five hundred feet above the north slope
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When your opponent’s altitude advantage is greater than four hundred feet, even those will not work, and you are helpless before them unless you can cast magical attacks over that distance
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He took them there, to an altitude of nine hundred feet above the port, and brought a six foot thick, one hundred and ten foot wide disk of the Focus Mountain reflector with them
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astronauts having ‘hallucinations’ as they orbited the earth at that altitude
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background voltage increases with altitude Between the lowest layers of
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Earth's) causes the atmosphere to be much more extended in altitude
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on the same course and at the same altitude until it burned
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I didn’t fancy spending the night there as it would be much colder than the coast due to the altitude, so after a few hours and lunch, set off on the road to Cannes, arriving in Mougins, another postcard village about an hour later
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Axel thrust his flier to the head of the formation and brought his craft to landing altitude
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The work’s equal to the plane’s altitude times the acceleration due to gravity times the mass of the plane
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It could not have been a bird at that altitude, so it must have been something internal, or sabotage
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That was the best thing about high altitude, low