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:

    “Follow in the footsteps of your fathers’ virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers’ will climbs with you?”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “It doesn’t seem so much to climb a mountain
    You’ve worked around the foot of all your life.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
    Forever and forever and forever.
    Why should I climb the look out?”
    —Li Po (701–762)