"At that stage the plane was at a very low altitude".
The article also referred incorrectly to the advantages of flying at a very low altitude, as Lindbergh did in daytime.
A mission architecture for very low altitude nanosatellite swarms using a space-based pulsed laser propulsion is described.
The novel mission concept foresees a formation of very low altitude parasitic small satellites capturing the signal transmitted by existing LEO SARs in C and X bands.
Since the astronauts circled the moon at a very low altitude, they were able to take the most detailed photos of the dark side of the moon ever taken.
The pilot of the small Italian passenger plane left Jordan yesterday saying that he was going to Syria and then turned and flew at a very low altitude into Iraq.
These, when dropped from very low altitude over water, would skim along the surface, skipping torpedo nets until they sank in front of their target – in this case, three dams along the Ruhr in Germany – and explode with devastating force.
Since the vehicle must fly at very low altitude to gain an improved lift to drag ratio, the altitude-holding system is designed to hold the desired optimal altitude.
Besides the empirically known profiles to fit the power law over the thickness of several hundred meters, some observed profiles showed that the bottom of the layer of constant velocity was located at very low altitude.
The F‐111's biggest short coming has been its failure to come anywhere near meeting its primary goal to fly a sig nificant distance at very low altitude, perhaps 250 feet or less, at a supersonic speed of about 900 miles an hour.
Mr. Sims said dozens of high speed antiradiation missiles, or HARM's, and Shrike missiles - an older version of missiles that home in on antiaircraft radars - were fired by aircraft offshore just moments before the bomb-laden jets roared into the target areas at very low altitude.
