Altimeter Reading Quotes & Sayings

An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude ... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude. — Joseph Kittinger

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be. — Joe Perry

The hotel looked as though it had been built back in the fifties, when everything seemed designed to be quickly turned into a bomb shelter. — Carolyn McCray

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous." — Benoit Mandelbrot

Think ... you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None — Suzanne Collins

I got you," he whispered, hugging her tight wile rocking her side to side a little. "I got you, I'll help you baby. You're not dirty, you're so fucking beautiful. I'll fix it, you'll see. — Lucian Bane

New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example. — Colson Whitehead