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So the overall consumption of energy is about 25 watts at takeoff and 16 to 18 watts in flight.
For example, planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated, less dense air, provides for less lift.
Right after takeoff, a slight change in course is the difference between landing in Alaska or Fiji.
Unlike most other fixed-wing aircraft, however, it is capable of hovering, which has huge advantages for takeoff, landing and general versatility.
However, only one airport, located on the equator, has granted permission for the experiment, making it the starting point, the finish line, and the only spot where the planes can land, takeoff, or refuel on the ground.
The satisfied overlords help you repair your ship and you prepare for takeoff.
In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded and crashed back down to Earth less than two minutes after takeoff.
The cause of that crash, it turned out, was an inexpensive rubber O-ring in the booster rocket that had frozen on the launchpad the night before and failed catastrophically moments after takeoff.
We will have two balloons for each of my test jumps, and two balloons for the main jump, because they notoriously tear on takeoff.
And then when they came to a stop, the boy would do a sudden vertical takeoff, 100 foot in the air, and then disappear.
If you look at the altimeter on my left leg, you'll see that I'm about a mile above takeoff.
He simply tried to make a softcore porn/goofy takeoff on the "Blair Witch Project."
And the names, I mean, come on...Sitka, Kenai, Tanana & Denahi (cheesy takeoff of Denali)?!
Actually, the best performances are from a couple of fat guys who impress with a lively tap dance and a Four Tops takeoff, and the jazz band itself, especially in the number featuring the bass player.
Before takeoff a 747 is shown to commence the taxi to the runway.
Some of the material is quite good ('The Shaggy Studio Executive,' where Walt Disney comes back as a guy in a dog suit), some of it's dated badly (A 'Snacktime' concession stand advert featuring a stoned guy with the munchies), a lot of it you have to think for a minute or two to figure out what's supposed to be funny (Who knew the eulogist at the biker funeral was supposed to be a takeoff of Georgie Jessel?).
This one works as a takeoff of a popular cartoon.
it's so bad one can't help thinking it's somehow a comedic takeoff on the Maugham book, but the punch line never arrives.
Yes, it is about a serial killer on one Halloween night in West Hollywood, but it also seems to be a light-hearted takeoff on all the silly teenage massacre horror films.
This is basically a German takeoff on a Sherlock Holmes story.
I think I was about 6 or 7 when I first saw this amazing takeoff on the Jazz Singer.
The quick answer is sexploitation, of course, but then why not just pile on the sex, instead of complicating it with (a) a noir cliche like the crusading public servant falling into moral dissolution, (b) the enigmatic Christoid character from another plane of reality, whose name, Sam Silver, is a takeoff on the director's name?
Is it just me, or does this seem like a bad takeoff of Indiana Jones to anyone else? Exploring jungles..... looking for treasure..... near-death experiences..... sound familiar to anyone else?
This is a great takeoff on Al Jolson and "The Jazz Singer."
Lewis Stadlen is equally hilarious as the manic, irrepressible Banjo (a takeoff of one of the Marx Brothers, but I'm not sure which).
The mice have fun moments including their whacky takeoff of "disfunctional theater" as they explain to the Prince key plot points, and once again prove heros as they scamper about the Nightmare Pumpkin taking Cinderella to her possible demise.
Pegged exchange rates clearly have been essential to East Asia’s economic takeoff, for they work well with the region’s export-oriented development model.
Fortunately, the region is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s, owing to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.
If one dates the international cybersecurity problem not from the origins of the Internet in the early 1970s but from the takeoff period since the late 1990s, intergovernmental cooperation in limiting cyber conflict is now at about the two-decade mark.
Simply put, Islam – one of the world’s great religions, practiced by nearly one-quarter of humanity – missed its development takeoff.
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