Climb

Climb

In aviation, the term climb refers both to the actual operation of increasing the altitude of an aircraft and to the logical phase of a typical flight (often called the climb phase or climbout) following takeoff and preceding the cruise, during which an increase in altitude to a predetermined level is effected.

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Famous quotes containing the word climb:

    “In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will already get further up today or you will exercise your strength so that you can climb higher tomorrow.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “There are some cases ... in which the sense of injury breeds—not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but—a hatred of all injury.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)