Word: aloftness
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...white-robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...
...manned Mercury capsules and the Russian Vostoks that have already orbited the earth. It is a remote-controlled robot, and it is traveling toward the far reaches of space-far beyond man's still limited reach. But it is carrying the most sophisticated scientific cargo yet sent aloft. Its complex instrumentation is a U.S. triumph...
Merely getting Mariner aloft was a frustrating task. Last month Mariner I was blown up by a range safety officer when it wandered erratically off course...
Popovich said that Nikolayev's capsule "looked like a very small moon in the distance." Vision was so clear aloft, added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water...
...hopes of staying aloft, the two British planemaking giants are again banking sharply into the passenger-jet market. There, where U.S. planemakers dominate so much of the skies, the going is rough, but the Britons are beginning to make progress with a wide variety of new rear-engine jets, ranging from small city-hoppers to lengthy ocean-spanners. Four, in particular, stand...