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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds announced Thursday morning that they've canceled their appearance at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show May 5 - 6 following a pilot's fatal crash in the Nevada desert earlier this month.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

«It has been a longstanding dream» to harvest water from desert air, says Mercouri Kanatzidis, a chemist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who wasn't involved with the work.

With astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen on board, the orbiter circled Earth 36 times before landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave desert.

They used a new analytical method perfected in collaboration with Joe McConnell at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, to make extremely detailed measurements of the air trapped in the ice.

The telescope will be built at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the dry, clear air of Chile's Atacama Desert, in a dome 22 stories high.

Nearly 8,000 feet above sea level in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the weather at the Las Campanas Observatory was cool, the air was crisp, and there was still some snow left on the ground from a storm just a few days prior.

And Radhika was speechless after a hot - air balloon ride over the Omani desert at sunrise, saying in a text message, «It is really hard to describe my feelings at this very moment because there is so much 2 say and I don't know where 2 start and because of all the excitement.»

Further new - ness includes an almost lickable Pagani-esque carbonfibre windscreen frame, a subtle re-working of the bodywork aft of your head — the coupe's glazed rear deck makes way for some deftly integrated rollover protection — 8 kg of additional reinforcement in the carbonfibre tub, a greater choice of wheel styles, a transmission oil cooler to prevent cooked cogs on desert trackdays, air - con as standard, a slightly plusher cockpit with more leather and an uprated Alpine stereo, heavier but less ugly headlights and, crucially, tweaks to the chassis aimed at sweetening its steering and improving directional stability.

Subtle Sub Vehicle: 1989 Chevy Suburban 2500 Owner: Scott and Julie Paine Location: Phoenix, Arizona Chassis: Stock frame Engine: TBI 350ci V - 8 with cold - air intake kit Drivetrain: TH400 transmission, NP208 T - case, 10 - Bolt front axle, 14 - Bolt rear axle Suspension: 4 - inch Rough Country lift springs at all four corners, sway bar drop brackets, Rough Country shocks Steering: Raised steering arm Brakes: Factory front disc, rear drum Tires / Wheels: 35x12.50 R16 Interco M - 16s on Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels Interior: Custom - covered dash matches paint Favorite off - road area: Desert trails around Black Canyon City, Arizona

Having air cooled vented seats while driving fast in the desert sun is a plus... especially when the cool air comes out at a steady speed.

In the extremities of the desert's temperatures, brutal heat by day and chill air at night, or on the passes through the mountains that led to the Yemen border, a tribesman or trader would suffer death by dehydration or exposure if he had bought unwisely at the market.

A breeze rattled the found object wind chimes at the Found Object Wind Chime Museum and Visitor Center, and the high desert air carried that sound in front of it, all the way across town, down to the three trailers at the very end of Hard Pan.

The same article quoted Col. James Cluff, the commander of the Air Force's 432nd Wing, which runs drone operations from a desert outpost about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas: «Having our folks make that mental shift every day, driving into the gate and thinking, «All right, I've got my war face on, and I'm going to the fight,» and then driving out of the gate and stopping at Walmart to pick up a carton of milk or going to the soccer game on the way home — and the fact that you can't talk about most of what you do at home — all those stressors together are what is putting pressure on the family, putting pressure on the airman.»

However, throw into the mix the fact that hotel prices drop anywhere from 50 % to 80 % off their peak season rates (from the very high - end resorts down to basic chain hotels), restaurants otherwise normally difficult at best to get into are home to empty dining rooms, and the reality that the dry desert air doesn't really feel that bad (at least to this New York City dweller who suffers through perspiration - inducing walks from the subway to the office for the entire summer season), and you begin to realize Scottsdale is a smart, attractive and a not - very - scary destination for travel during the summer.

Named for the desert, the therapeutic feelings of the dry salty air accompany every step at Villa Desierto.

Waking up at 4 am was worth it: Do a hot - air balloon ride in Dubai's desert and enjoy watching the sunrise from above.

Gaze in awe at some spectacular desert vistas while enjoying an hour in the air, and then return to ground to celebrate the flight with a refreshing drink before returning to Dubai.

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Your room at Hotel Las Dunas comes with air conditioning, to keep your room a comfortable temperature in the midst of the desert.

Kai's Beach house is located on the south west sunset beach of Gili Air, with views of deserted white sands and mountains to glorious sunsets at dusk.

The concierge at the The Boulders can arrange other activities such as hot - air ballooning and desert jeep tours.

As standard across the rooms at the Desert Rose Resort, you'll find a range of 5 - star quality bathroom amenities, a safety deposit box, air conditioning, and a hairdryer.

I think being out here in Alpine, Texas, covered under a blanket of desert air and «Big Sky» brought about a wee change in me, at least in what I find interesting artistically.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Full of bleak beauty, the sculptures hang in profusion at Cheim and Read, bringing along a whiff of the dry desert air.

Damian Carrington at The Guardian notes that «the last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when the Arctic was ice - free, savannah spread across the Sahara desert and sea level was up to 40 metres higher than today.»

The return to the surface of this very dry air is the cause of the bands of deserts at certain latitudes.

The desert air is likewise heated at altitude, by latent heat.

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Descending air currents of High pressure systems are also the reason we have deserts and why the world's records for hottest temperatures on each continent are not at the equator but about 32 to 36 ° North as seen in the above diagram.

Tropical swamps decrease their production of methane at the same time that Europe cools, and the Gobi Desert whips much more dust into the air.

At Thomas: I find that note of total air heat content interesting, because if that was so then Wichita beats the stuffing out of the desert southwest in the heat content of the air for a good chunk of the year.

I am under the impression that the water content; by molecular abundance of the driest desert air anywhere on earth is always higher than the molecular abundance of CO2 in the same location at the same time.

But when you look at the very cold regions where there is almost no water in the atmosphere to begin with, or the desert regions, you do not in fact see any observable evidence that the air is any warmer than it was in the past with respect to CO2 increases.

They measure the hydrogen and oxygen isotopes to infer air temperatures at the time the snow fell, and the dust particles give a nice indication of the dusty periods (much of the dust was kicked up far away, in the Gobi Desert, rather than from sources closer to Greenland).

The conventional approach — the center - pivot sprinklers that create alienlike green crop circles in the middle of brown deserts (easily visible when flying overhead)-- is extremely wasteful, spraying water into the air where a major fraction evaporates... In a typical drip - irrigation setup, long sections of narrow tubing laid at the bottom of plants sown in a row deliver water directly to the roots.

Similarly, at night, you can freeze water by digging a hole in the desert to restrict convection even though air temperatures can be 20 °C +.

Any expenses relating to search and rescue operations to find an Insured Person in mountains, at sea, in the desert, in the jungle and similar remote locations, including air / sea rescue charges for evacuation to shore from a vessel or from the sea.

Wednesday morning, in the Nevada desert, one of the companies working to develop a hyperloop will deliver a proof of concept — the first full - scale demonstration of the transportation technology that will be able to travel at speeds over 300 mph in an open - air environment, potentially changing the future of transit along the way.

Tweed helped designed Desert Ridge Marketplace, a 1.2 million square foot regional open - air center in Phoenix, while at MCG Architecture.