They have remained at a high altitude ever since, notwithstanding a recent dip in the figures.
Jones added sensors that, by monitoring the air temperature above and below the heli ten times a second, can keep the chopper at a fixed altitude with more accuracy than a human on the ground can.
He said the preceding manoeuvre was probably the highest and most sustained of the day in terms of G-force but said flying at a higher altitude "may not have made a difference".
The company's Pegasus XL rocket was flown to a launch altitude of about 39, 000 feet by a specially configured L-1011 "Stargazer" jetliner taking off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, near the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
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Enjoying a higher altitude than the wineries around Montevideo, it hosts tastings on a west-facing hillside deck, where sunset views encompass swathes of eucalyptus, vines and a coastal lagoon.
The airplane reached a cruising altitude of 19, 000 feet (5, 791 meters), and a speed of up to 250 knots, or about 288 miles per hour (463 kilometers).
Beckstoffer has figured out that a certain altitude--from about 600 to 730 meters--in the right part of Lake County has a heating-and-cooling cycle similar to Napa's.
On release, SS2 will then ignite a rocket engine to climb to a maximum altitude of about 361, 000ft (110km).
Soon, I will climb to a cruise altitude of 15, 500 feet to clear the highest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Because we're in such a high altitude, and I get very easily winded, so I'm so much more focusing on actual respiration.
Computer modelling of the impact suggests that the plume will reach a maximum altitude of 500km about 17 minutes after the impact.
The reason is simple: the typical business jet or airliner cruising at 45, 000 feet will have a cabin altitude of about 8, 000 feet.
"What they're saying about ejecting very late is definitely true, " Gutkowski said about reports that the pilots apparently ejected at a low altitude.
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First, subtraction is a ground level strategy, not a high altitude theory, and is what people want me to talk about in speeches and seminars.
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It is easily accessible from Pokhara, and even though it is at a lower altitude than Imja, it is still not surrounded by human habitation and thus, not polluted.
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" Seventeen seconds later, he said the plane was experiencing "a little rattle" and asked to be cleared to go to a higher altitude "as soon as possible please.
He worries that if you ban the low oxygen or hypoxic tents, some may wonder why not ban those athletes who actually live at a high altitude and then train down below?
Mr Mawet and his team, meanwhile, are trying to fabricate prototypes of their design to test on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, which is at a higher altitude, and thus less prone to wobbling air.
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One ejection seat shell ripped through an oak tree and crashed into a condo fence, and the other seat shell landed next door, suggesting that the two Navy pilots ejected at a low altitude, another resident, Keith Gutkowski, told CNN.
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With the aircraft's fuel pump, navigation equipment and radio paralysed, the pilots glided the plane to a lower altitude and landed it on an airfield near the village of Izhma in the Komi region, about 1, 500 km (930 miles) from Moscow.
Their new 12-day trek is not a cushy luxury trip, but rather a high-altitude hiking adventure and a cultural adventure, since guests spend their nights camping in tents or staying in the homes of local villagers, including the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.
One reached an altitude of 25 miles (40km) attached to a high-altitude balloon.
In contrast to the Predator, which typically flies at an altitude of 15, 000 feet, the Global Hawk is a high-altitude aircraft capable of flying at 65, 000 feet, beyond the reach of any ground-based weapon.
To demonstrate how they would disperse the sulfur dioxide, they had planned to float a balloon over Norfolk, at an altitude of a kilometre, and send a hundred and fifty litres of water into the air through a hose.
To get from one peak to the other, economists will have to lose a lot of altitude first.
Wednesday's explosion occurred at a substantially higher altitude, three minutes into the flight.
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And researchers from the University of Colorado, Denver, are planning a high-altitude research trip to Bolivia with 24 study participants.
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