They were then commanded to reduce their height by a factor of two (to 23km) for another three months, allowing them to obtain data at an even better resolution.

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It's difficult to determine height accurately, it was maybe three or four hundred feet, quite a bit lower than helicopters would normally fly at.

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This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.

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Despite the accolades, Palance moved with his wife and three young children to Lausanne, Switzerland, at the height of his career.

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Bernard, the 2006 Commonwealth silver medallist, passed at the opportunity to jump 2.19m, going straight to 2.23 and, after three attempts, he cleared the height.

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Solar energy speculators want to build a solar tower facility in Arizona that would be more than three times the height of the Eiffel Tower.

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At its height, hundreds of whaling ships crisscrossed the globe on voyages that could last three to five years, and sometimes longer, fraught with enormous risks.

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The hoaxer, who had an accent said to be from the Castletown area of Sunderland, sent police three letters and an audio tape at the height of the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry in 1978 and 1979.

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That led to a job at Yves Saint Laurent and a three-year stint with Christian Lacroix, at the dizzying height of the designer's pouf-dress glory days.

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