altitude
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Nigeria's government has cautioned its citizens, in particular those with medical conditions, against travelling via Ethiopia's main airport due to its altitude.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
This could counteract the gradual loss of altitude that threatens the telescope's future and potentially allow it to continue making scientific discoveries for additional years.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
They are lifted off the runway by a dual fuselage carrier plane to about 45,000 feet, where they separate, blast off to an altitude of 50 miles above earth and float back down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It took an hour and 14 minutes to scoop up Mr. Vlasenko and transport him along a 39-mile route at an altitude of roughly 500 feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Prior to the clinic’s existence, acute altitude illness killed approximately one or two out of every 500 trekkers who passed through Pheriche.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Unlike planes, drones operate at low altitudes and may fly directly over residential areas.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
"It allows for operations at very low altitudes -- it is controlled by a signal from space, bypassing the radio horizon and the Earth's curvature -- factors that otherwise limit ground-based remote control signals."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The data show many Hamptons-bound flights operated by companies such as Flexjet traveling at around 1,000 feet, a fraction of the average cruising altitudes they advertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Different wavelengths allow astronomers to observe different altitudes within Saturn's atmosphere, producing small shifts in where the decagon seems to appear.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The earliest and most intensive food production, and the densest populations, of Greater Australia arose in the highland valleys of New Guinea at altitudes between 4,000 and 9,000 feet above sea level.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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