altitude

One especially large, long-lasting smoke plume rose to a record altitude while spinning and wrapping itself in rotating winds.

Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.

These skills are particularly needed when, as in the case of the AirAsia flight, the airplane is at cruise altitude.

This high-altitude pine needs to be 50-80 years old before it even begins to produce cones.

And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.

At this place he obtained an indifferent meridian altitude which placed it in 16 degrees 40 minutes 18 seconds South.

Livingstone gives an account of a variety that attained an altitude much higher than the American plant.

Those produced by the moon would have an altitude of about one foot, and those by the sun of about three inches.

It is likely that in a general way the ocean surges which beat against the coast are of greater altitude.

Not only should the altitude of the plant be taken into account, but also the size and texture of the leaf.