What is "altimeter"

Usage examples of "altimeter".

Other officers were standing by radar and radar altimeter, NST transceiver, drift indicator, accelerometer, and all the rest of it.

Trading precious altitude for more speed, Batman plunged toward the jungle canopy, watching as the rapidly sweeping hands of his altimeter ticked off the feet.

At a preprogrammed height above ground, which is determined by radar altimeters in each sub-projectile, the Indowy containment field releases a burst of anti-protons into the fullerene matrix which then sustains a rapid chain reaction.

Henry checked the altimeter and the helium guages and decided to let more gas into the envelope of The Head.

The airship dropped lower and lower until the altimeter - an unreliable device worked by barometric pressure - warned them they were as low as they dared go in darkness.

He checked the rigging and equipment, the altimeter, charts, a pyrometer to monitor the temperature of the envelope, a rate of climb indicator, and a tool kit.

The SB2Cs hurtled almost straight down from 15,000 feet, the pilots leaning forward, concentrating on the growing targets, wishing there were 1,000-pounders in their bomb bays instead of the two 500s, ignoring the flashing, streaking, smoking flak, around the edges of their vision seeing the altimeters unwind and the square-winged fighters sweep across their targets, the rocket hits sparkle and smoke against the steel, the bombs of planes ahead spouting close aboard or flashing beautifully on decks and turrets.

Fitch gave him altimeter readings to dial into the bombsight, Matthews gave him windspeeds.

While Dunlop, the copilot, monitored the GPS and checked that the Sikorsky remained over water, Tibbits gripped the collective, looking for sudden obstacles and keeping his eye on the radar altimeter.

I bowed our heads over the altimeter actuators on our chutes and put our thumbs to the set dials.

A lot of things that you couldn't use for much other than paperweights: Bombsights and old altimeters and doughboy helmets that wouldn't even make good planters.

His favorite magazine was Mountain Biking Action and Reaction, and he would spend countless hours analyzing the carbon fiber frames, titanium handlebars, aluminum cranks, elliptical chain rings, front suspension forks, full suspension bikes, grip shifters, quick release levers, gel racing seats, disc wheels, bar ends, clipless pedals, Kevlar (TM) tires, altimeters, casette hubs, and other wondrous objects that filled its pages.

The chap working the absolute altimeter steadily fed his data into the fuse pots of the canister.

The chap working the absolute altimeter stea ily fed his data into the fuse pots of the canister.

She swerved her attention to the two main altimeters that read pressure altitude, not absolute altitude like the radar altimeter.