Word: aloftness
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...other airmen, today's competition seems like a reprise of the original, subsonic jet race a decade ago: Britain's Comets were the first aloft, but the Americans soon passed them with faster, larger, longer-flying 707s...
...oxygen line had delayed the launch for 48 hours. Poised on the pad, the big bird had to wait impatiently while Air Force planes tracked down the noisy radio of a ship slogging along offshore. But now Saturn SA-5, biggest and most powerful rocket ever fired aloft, was rising above Cape Kennedy as routinely as any operational missile...
Looking like a strange translucent bubble, the nylon dome is kept aloft by a pair of 1½-h.p. fans, is big enough (120 ft. long, 33 ft. high) for all but the most enthusiastic lob shots. Adapted from a design for use in housing radar-antenna installations, the tent was built by Birdair Structures Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., can be rigged and inflated in several hours, packs away when not in use into a space just about the size of a pingpong table...
...current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight of the all-cargo lines (which carry 30% of U.S. air freight), last week announced that it will come to their aid, most likely with route and rate concessions to keep them aloft...
...Clark both contained and candid. "Not a single question did he refuse to answer or dodge. Looking back, I suppose I will think of him most often sitting in a plane, hunched in a window seat close to the wing, if possible. I really think he spends more time aloft than on the ground, and it is there that he does much of his best thinking and writing...