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Altitude is the third and final full-length album by the band Yellow Second , released on March 8, 2005 by Floodgate Records. Altitude was the only Yellow Second album to receive distribution via a major label, making it the band's most prevalent and well-known ...
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n. The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
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n. elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache" [syn: height ] the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to opposite vertex (or side if parallel) angular distance above the horizon ...
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From this, and much other evidence, geologists have deduced that the Altiplano is still gradually rising, but in an unbalanced manner with greater altitudes being attained in the northern part and lesser in the southern.
The two-engine Boeing 767 had no trouble flying to a cruise altitude of just over seven and a half miles in the sky.
Airplanes are designed to be able to fly with one engine inoperative, but the pilots decided to reduce altitude and were beginning to redirect the airplane to a closer airport when the second engine flamed out.
The 767 can glide about eleven miles forward for each mile it loses in altitude, but that still only afforded flight 143 about fifteen minutes in the air.
On long international flights, as heavy fuel slowly burns off, pilots will ascend to a higher cruise altitude every two or three hours.
The airplane gets more lift from the air traveling faster over the wing, so the pilot needs to slow the plane down and bring it to a lower altitude to maintain its path.
When an airplane encounters some, it slows down and air traffic controllers try to assign it an altitude where the air might be more stable.
United States can legally fly up to an altitude of 17,999 feet in powerful updrafts of air.
These aircraft are designed to fly just fine at a lower cruising altitude with just one engine, but no one wants to take a chance that the other engine might fail, too.
Spoilers make the airplane lose altitude and slow down, but they can also cause some choppy vibrations.
There are to be no interruptions or discussions about anything other than the operation and safety of the flight from takeoff until 10,000-feet altitude, and again from 10,000 feet down until landing.
A severe downdraft or wind shear is scary at cruising altitude, but not life-threatening if you have a seatbelt on.
They swung in wide left turns at a comfortable altitude and in loose formation to ease the pilots.
The Marines at Ewa saw a Dauntless which was probably his, in a twisting, swirling, low altitude mix-up with two or three Zeros, fixed and free guns all firing at once.
They checked altitude and air speed, fuel consumption and position in formation, and again searched the wide sea and the sky.