Word: slopes
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...runway. He follows the beam, and soon a radio beacon warns him by means of a sound signal in his earphones and a purple light flashing on his instrument panel that he is five miles from touchdown. A few seconds later, he picks up the "glide slope" beam, which controls a pair of pointers on the plane's instrument panel. By flying his plane to keep the pointers properly positioned, the pilot can keep to the center of the sloping beam. He sees nothing but fog ahead, and he knows that the runway is approaching at 150 m.p.h...
Guiding Cables. Below 200 ft. the glide slope beam of conventional ILS is not dependable because of ground interference and reflections from nearby buildings. In Britain, where fog is frequent and nasty, magnetic cables have been laid leading to the runways. Instruments enable a pilot to keep between the cables and glide down safely, even below 200 ft. But magnetic cables are not considered the final answer, even in Britain...
...Category I. Category II will permit properly equipped jetliners to land when the ceiling is 100 ft. and the visibility is one-quarter mile. The hardware for this technique has already been developed, says FAA. It consists chiefly of new antennas that give more dependable localizer and glide slope beams. One of them will soon be tested on an instrument landing runway at New York's La Guardia Airport...
...suffered from eczema, asthma and syphilis) and the demand for his paintings declined, Gauguin saw his withdrawal in another light: he had "buried his talent among the savages; no more will be heard of me; for many, it will appear to be a crime." Despondent, he climbed the slope of a mountain, swallowed arsenic and waited to die. But his stomach failed him: he merely became ill and had to climb down again, "condemned to live...
Dominic welcomed us to his area of the Tunnel and explained that things were much cooler here (around 50 degrees) because less steam was needed at the Business School than on the Cambridge side. The Tunnel stretched straight out before us. A downward slope took us back underground, and then we started the long walk under the river bank and expressway toward the Business School. An uneventful five minute walk brought us to the McCulloch Hall operating station, from which, after exchanging farewells with Dominic, we left subterranean Harvard and returned to the Harvard of everyday experience...