Word: aloftness
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...jetliner took off. Seventeen seconds later, already alerted to the danger of a stall by the rattle of the control stick, Wheaton tried to will Flight 90 aloft. "Forward, forward. Come on, forward. Forward! Just barely climb." Five seconds later Pettit knew it was over. "Larry," he said, "we're going down, Larry...
...earlier used the plane's flight recorder data to reconstruct its takeoff. The Boeing 737 took 47 sec. rather than the usual 30 sec. to reach its lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also wonder whether ice formed on the aircraft or its engines before it plunged into...
...came from Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands and, in fact, all of the founding partners in this billion-dollar collaboration. Ariane's first commercial flight is scheduled for late April, only a few weeks after Columbia's next launch, due March 22. Three more Arianes will be hurled aloft in 1982. The first will carry an Italian-made meteorological satellite and the British-built Marecs B maritime communications satellite. In fact, comsats, as they are known in space jargon, should continue to be Ariane's major and most lucrative cargo through the decade. Even at a cost...
...Portraits of Gaddafi are everywhere, in private homes, musty old hotels, on billboards in service stations. Pointedly, there are also anti-American posters depicting Libyans shoving a spear through the head of a bleeding pig clothed in Uncle Sam's red-white-and-blue suit, with doves soaring aloft carrying little Green Books...
...Tonight's result is a miracle by anybody's standards!" exulted the smiling, unpretentious woman who suddenly found herself borne aloft by her cheering campaign workers. "There is not a single safe seat left in the country." Lifting a glass of champagne, Shirley Williams, 51, toasted her victory as the first person to be elected to Parliament under the banner of Britain's new Social Democratic Party. It was a historic moment in modern British politics. For the first time since the Liberals faded in 1922, the country had three strong political parties...