Sentence examples for half the altitude from inspiring English sources
Canopy pilots jump from aircraft at less than half the altitude for normal skydives, immediately open parachutes and prepare for a ground-level swoop.
During the expedition, mean fasting glucose was lower in the second half compared with the first half at altitude (7.1 ± 1.2 vs. 6.6 ± 0.9 mmol/L, P = 0.022) but did not differ from sea level (6.9 ± 1.2 mmol/L; Fig. 1).
Half a minute later, Lubitz changed the altitude from a cruising height of 38,000ft to just 100ft and set the automatic pilot to descend.
There are no lowlands: half the territory lies at altitudes of 3,300 to 6,600 feet; only about one-tenth lies below the 3,300-foot 3,300-foot
Half the battle in high-altitude climbing is mental, and Fischer knows it.
The primary mission of these "Synthetic Aperture Radars" (SAR) is to exactly map the altitude of the surface with a precision of one half inch or less.
They had scored a first-half penalty, but wilted after the break as the effects of the altitude (2,800m above sea level) kicked in.
For reference, the partial pressure of oxygen at the altitude of Everest Base Camp (5,300 metres altitude) is about one-half of the sealevel value.
In the altitude range where the ozone layer usually reaches its maximum concentration, more than half of the ozone was lost.
"The altitude really helps".
