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:

    “To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
    —Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

    “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)

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