Sentences with phrase «vertical distance traveled»

The goggles also track speed, vertical distance traveled and air time, which is probably what most buyers will be interested in.

One problem might be that climbing slopes is not what trains are good at, while it is the vertical distance travelled that matters.

Not exact matches

The landslide, from top to bottom, fell 2,790 vertical feet, but its runout — the distance the slide traveled — was almost 10,072 feet, or just less than two miles.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — while it makes intuitive sense that a spatially - invariant net photon flux could be sustained by a constant gradient in local equilibrium photon concentration (proportional to T ^ 4 for a grey gas, assuming constant real component of index of refraction), the calculation of what that gradient should actually be is made a bit more complicated by the fact that photons travelling in different directions will on average be absorbed over longer or shorter vertical distances.

So, if you can use the airship's ability to do a vertical landing in or near the locations you really want to get to or from, then you have a good shot at reducing the total point - to - point travel time enough to make the airship quite acceptable for short distance air travel.

If you plan to do a lot of work on your computer, make sure the keyboard offers solid tactile feedback, plenty of vertical travel (distance the key goes down when pressed, usually 1 to 2 mm) and enough space between the keys.