In September 2008, a high-pressure natural gas pipeline operated by BP ruptured, sending two segments of pipe flying 900 feet across the tundra.
The heat has been so extreme that a portion of the Cimarron Turnpike in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, buckled on Sunday, creating a 2-foot ramp that sent a motorcyclist flying 150 feet through the air.
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.
Lidle and the CFI were flying at only 700 feet above the ground.
If there are Navy jets routinely flying a few hundred feet above a rural site that is part of a contemplated transaction, the potential for government objection may be clear.
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As the battery explosions earlier this month demonstrate, the idea that these computerized controls would make the lithium-ion batteries safe for a plane flying 40, 000 feet above sea level filled with passengers is inadequate.
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You may have seen Maho in unbelievable interweb photos showing giant airliners flying just a few dozen feet above the beach.
The Boeing 737-300 in question was only 15 years old when its skin peeled open along a riveted lap-joint while flying above 34, 000 feet (just over 10, 000 metres) with 118 passengers on board.
Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Airbus A320, carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was flying at 37, 000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The nuclear sites ban, which affects 80 facilities such as power plants and Energy Department areas, restricts aircraft flying below 18, 000 feet from coming within a radius of 10 nautical miles of each facility.
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The office where Webb sat had the only video feed in the White House showing real-time footage of the target, which was being shot by an unarmed RQ 170 drone flying more than fifteen thousand feet above Abbottabad.
Flying at roughly 30, 000 feet, the craft would climb sharply just as it released the rocket, which would use a cluster of four or five engines to boost itself into orbit.
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Flying at just below 10, 000 feet, research instruments identified three distinct layers of volcanic residue.
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Flying over Missoula at 11, 500 feet, we turned right and followed Interstate 90 into Bozeman.
Armadillo came close to winning the X Prize Foundation's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.
Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.
The aircraft was believed to have been flying at a height of 13, 000 feet in the rugged Queen Alexandra Range.
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Although jets are pressurized so that the cabin environment resembles an altitude of around 8, 000 feet, some people report that flying (possibly from the changes in pressure and resulting decrease in oxygen concentration) causes symptoms such as headache, fatigue and nausea.
She dropped the last few feet and started running, her pigtails flying, shoes clacking on the bricks.
He wanted, and got, the largest gallery in the world, 450 feet long by 80 feet wide, with a skylight and flying beams overhead.
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One of Wagstaff's signature moves is to use her plane's propeller to clip a ribbon that's stretched 22 feet above the runway while flying upside down.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University have estimated the impact on the ground of emissions from aircraft flying at cruise altitude (about 35, 000 feet), a problem typically ignored by regulations.
The golf-course plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, was flying west at an altitude of 3, 500 feet when the second plane, also a Cessna 172, approached from the east after leaving Santa Monica Airport for a test flight.
The B-52s are long-range bombers capable of flying at subsonic speeds at altitudes of up to 50, 000 feet.
An initial probe by Brazilian investigators found that the two planes were flying towards each other at the same altitude of 37, 000 feet (11, 000m).
It flew only a few feet above the water and was a familiar Cold War sight flying over the Caspian Sea.
At 29, 000 feet, by FAA regulation, I had to stop hand-flying the Mustang and switched on the autopilot.
For recreational hobbyists, flying remote-controlled planes is only allowed by the FAA up to 400 feet, and within sight of the operator.
For recreational hobbyists, flying remote-controlled planes is only allowed by the FAA up to 400 feet in the air, and within sight of the operator.
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