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.

Read more about Climb.

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)

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

    We hug the earth,—how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)