Eyewitnesses said the plane had climbed "almost vertically" to a height of about 200 metres (650 feet) before crashing.
GLAS's main job was measuring the height of ice sheets, but the data that came back from forested areas contain a lot of information about the height of the canopy and the density of the vegetation there.
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"People were jumping out of the balloon from about the height of a seven-storey building, " Cherry Tohamy, an Egyptian who was in another balloon, told the BBC.
And what of Mr Lu and his warnings about the height of the water in the reservoir?
At the height of the storm, about 100, 000 Kansas City Power and Light customers were without power, the company said.
Soon they found themselves arguing about matters such as the height of the letters on product packages rather than about more important issues.
At the height of the storm, about 35, 000 households lost power on Long Island, and about 10, 000 households still had no electricity on Saturday morning, said Gil Quiniones of the New York Power Authority.
In addition to their impressive response, volume, and features, the iLoud speakers are surprisingly small, exceptionally portable, and can be used everywhere. iLoud MINI, the smaller of the two, is only about the width and height of an iPad mini while iLoud has the size of an iPad.
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The new models of desktop thin clients are literally thin, about the width and height of a textbook.
There were no worries about the height of the trees or the level of the sky.
The robot, standing at about the height of a person, can also carry meals to residents.
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Lenovo says the laptop measures 17 mm high when closed, which is about the height of a penny.
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The women chatted about the height of the new towers, remembered tearfully where they were the day of the attack, and marveled at how much time had past.
But when we met at the restaurant I wanted to read him something I'd written in a March column, at the height of "Linsanity, " about a 1970 Knicks-Baltimore Bullets playoff game I attended.
Last year, the National Grid began warning Wood Recycling Services Ltd about the height of wood piles at the Appspond Lane site and from July 2012, the Environment Agency (EA) said it must remove thousands of tonnes of wood which the agency believed were a safety hazard.
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While properties in the most coveted neighbourhoods are selling within weeks of being listed, prices are down about 20% from the height of the market.
Does all this mean that the asssembly of a 150, 000-strong ground force to attack Serbia widely mooted at the height of the war, with Britain assumed to be providing about a third of the invaders was never more than a fantasy?
Witnesses said that at the height of the fire flames had been about 50m (150ft) high.
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Three years ago, at the height of a property bubble, there were about 360, 000 such households in Hong Kong.
In the 2005 movie, Kong appears to be about 25 feet tall in a crouch --about seven times the height of an actual silverback gorilla.
At normal cruising height of eight hundred feet, there were about two seconds between the beeps, and you noticed it no more than your own heartbeat.
As for parts, the National Weather Service, then busy upgrading its 150 radars (each about the height and width of a doorway), was happy to give Baron the old equipment if he agreed to haul it away.
After all, the Little People of America conference was all about height, from the guest list to the fashion show.
My own question about a man of considerable height is not whether he would win a presidential election but how well he could operate as President.
But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.
Under the Moscow Treaty, signed in 2002, the U.S. has committed to reducing its strategic nuclear arsenal by two-thirds -- to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 deployed nuclear weapons from about 10, 000 at the height of the Cold War.
But watching the Greek crisis grind toward its umpteenth "crunch point", you can't help wondering why we hear so much about the country that's been desperately trying to win the markets' confidence for nearly two years, but so little about the country that, at the height of the crisis, basically told international investors to shut up and wait their turn.
Although about 70% of a person's height is determined by genetics, children need good nutrition, with plenty of protein, vitamins and calcium, to reach their full adult potential.
The campaigners also flew a blimp at about 377ft (115m) to demonstrate the maximum height of the turbines.
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