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...stabilize the free-falling bomb in high-altitude drops, or slow it for low-altitude delivery where the carrying aircraft needs to get clear of blast and fragme Two main kinds of tail assemblies are used for low-altitude delivery. "Snakeye" fins stabilize, but also present considerable air resi

At low altitude Mustangs handled perfectly. The problem was that the original General Motor ...1944, began escorting [[B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17 heavy bombers]] at high altitude to all European targets and back, repelling any Luftwaffe fighters that dar

...lot]] for the more routine, [[midcourse]] part of a flight, once at cruise altitude and before its final mission(s) begin. More advanced UAVs may guide themsel

...warm moist air is maintained as air enters the forward right flank at low altitude. As the air ascends it is forced to turn due to the variation of wind speed

The official boundary to space is encountered at 62 miles (100 km) of altitude, although the [[United States of America]] sometimes defines the edge of sp

...air.com/library.active/nyb.engineering.letters/engltr4.pdf Temperature and Altitude Affect Fan Selection]</ref>

...Runer to 2,946m at Pic de Coma Pedrosa, the highest point, with an average altitude of 1,996m, and much of the territory is forested. It has an area of around

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* Scamehorn, Lee. ''High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado'' (2002) [http://www.questia.

...graph]]s and in recording [[barograph]]s used in determining [[sailplane]] altitude records.

...e target. A bomb may have a [[proximity fuze]] so that it detonate at some altitude above the ground.

...cruise missiles, especially long-range antiship missiles, may fly at high altitude for aerodynamic efficiency in the midcourse.

...e of specifying locations on earth using [[latitude]], [[longitude]] and [[altitude]] is a version of spherical polar coordinates. ===Latitude, longitude, and altitude===

...environmental hardships. Battling the unusual problems that come with high-altitude construction, workers constructed the last 600 feet by hand, completed in 1 ...l) is 760 Torr (1013 mbar). At this pressure, many people will suffer from altitude sickness.

...are small, such that many can be released at once from an aircraft at high altitude.

...she first soloed, she set an official light plane [[flight altitude record|altitude record]] of 11,889 feet (3,624 m) in the Waco 9.<ref name=Moses /><ref>{{Ha ...no way to signal about any engine problems that would mean sudden loss of altitude. The Sunbeam was not a notably stable aircraft: in Smith's words, "it had t

**Terminal High Altitude Area Defense *FIM-92 Stinger: low altitude including individual soldier; vehicle mounts to become final defense and he

...r elevations, and in mountain forests up to the bamboo zone at 1600-2800 m altitude. Common in papyrus reed around small lakes.<ref name="Mal03"/>

...ast - that is, to the Lukomskaye lake in northwestern Belarus. The average altitude above sea level is 220 m. (721.78 ft.) The geography of Minsk was formed du

...sts in late 2007 with a primary goal of carrying 2,500lbs of payload to an altitude of 15,000kft under remote control and autonomous waypoint navigation. The p There are two primary focuses of current research on airships: 1) high altitude, long duration, sensor and/or communications platforms and 2) long distance