altitude

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Authorities coordinate with airlines to carve out the safest corridors, and planes calibrate their altitude to minimize their time in threat zones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Yet the low altitude and slow speed puts them in greater danger for ground or antiaircraft fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Their small size and low altitude allow them to slip through aerial defence systems.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

It's hard going at first - the altitude and our body armour making it difficult to breath.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The same equation we’d used to calculate altitude based on time was the one we needed first; good old S = ½at².

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam