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:
“Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)