Sentence examples for ft altitude from inspiring English sources

To achieve the heights, the SpaceShipTwo was airlifted by the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft to an altitude around 46,000 feet, before ignited its rocket motor upon release, powering the spaceship to the planned 71,000 ft altitude.

"With an aircraft like the ER-2, which can fly at 20km (over 70,000 ft altitude), we are above 98% of the atmosphere, so often we can simulate a near space environment from it," says Randal Albertson, deputy director of Nasa's Airbourne Science Programme.

In particular, the paper analyzes a turboprop oil cooler heat exchanger when the aircraft is flying at cruise conditions, namely 2743 m (9000 ft) altitude, focusing attention on several heat exchanger flow field features such as air pressure drop, temperature change and mass flow rate.

hornbeam (Carpinetum) forests at 230 to 670 m (750 to 2200 ft) altitude.

It occurs from 2300 m (7500 ft) altitude down to sea level.

The aircraft reached 170 meters (550 ft) altitude and remained at that height for the rest of the flight.

South of the pass the mountains average 5,000 6,000 ft in altitude.

Here it grows in mountainous regions between 800 and 3200 meters (2600 10500 ft) in altitude.

In the Himalayas, the rate at which an air mass's temperature falls per kilometre (3,281 ft) of altitude gained (the dry adiabatic lapse rate) is 9.8 °C/km.

Cumulus clouds, being low-stage clouds, are generally less than 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in altitude unless they are the more vertical cumulus congestus form.

At 20 27 32 the captain asked for flaps and landing gear, which were immediately deployed by the first officer and resulted in the aircraft gaining 70 meters (200 ft) of altitude.