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rapid climb

n. a rapid rise [syn: rapid growth, zoom]

Usage examples of "rapid climb".

He started a rapid climb, swept the Megafortress's wings full forward, dropped the gear, and lowered full flaps and slats, instantly destroying all the bomber's stealthy characteristics and increasing his radar cross section about 10,000 percent.

He had pitched the bomber up sharply in a rapid climb, cranking the wings in toward the fuselage as the B-1 shot through the thin auto rise above the racing Soviet fighters.

With a head cold and sinus infection, the rapid climb during takeoff forced mucus tightly into the Eustachian tubes of Mundy's inner ear, reducing the air pressure inside the sinuses and inner ear and jamming the sinuses and inner ear closed.

The missiles started a rapid climb on tongues of fire and headed for their targets-Egypt's network of earlywarning surveillance radars along its western frontier.

He was getting winded from his rapid climb, and had to watch carefully to be sure he didn’.

Arms outspread, he paused while the applause rang out and then he had twisted upright and jumped into a rapid climb.

He was getting winded from his rapid climb, and had to watch carefully to be sure he didn't make a misstep while absorbing the splendors of the immense canopy above and the broad disk below.

Lift-off was smooth, followed by rapid climb out over the low overcast.

The more sensational aspects of my rapid climb cannot obscure the facts.

The stars spun around the Pole Star as the sky grew blue with the early dawn and the sun began its rapid climb in the east.

The facts and the results of my experiments are clear, and the more sensational aspects of my own rapid climb cannot obscure the fact that the tripling of intelligence by the surgical technique developed by Drs.

It was through Francis that Ross gained a good appointment in the Courtauld Institute, and began his rapid climb toward influence as a critic and creator of taste.

No one spoke during our rapid climb to orbit (not that you can hear yourself think, much less carry on a conversation, anywhere near a horsefly when its engine is putting out that banshee shriek) .