run-up


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a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time

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the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed

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Our Stable Flow run-up enclosures, which are currently in use at airports across the globe, have proven to be reliable solutions for performing engine runs in challenging wind conditions" says Bergin.
To mark out wide run-ups just to miss and area and stuff like that, it becomes ridiculous," he said.
More than 85% of the ground run-ups at ALB take place at night when aircraft are available for maintenance and when there are very few take-offs and landings--essentially a recipe for noise complaints from the community surrounding the airport.
The three-sided, open-top GRE was constructed close to the end of Runway 13R, where open air run-ups at El Dorado were previously performed.
We had not been conducting engine run-ups prior to takeoff for as long as I had been in the squadron, even though we train to it during initial instruction at flight safety.
A three-sided, open-roofed enclosure, it is designed to reduce the engine run-up noise heard in nearby neighbourhoods by up to 50% by absorbing and channelling sound up rather than out.
In spite of new levels of inflation, including run-ups in record prices for oil and steel over the past few years, we have seen increases of 8.9% for 2004 in new construction and anticipated further growth of 2% for 2005, according to McGraw-Hill's Construction Dodge's Report.
Dr Iwan Griffiths and his team have spent seven years researching how to take the perfect penalty including analysis of body language, the length of run-ups and the importance of not giving "visual cues" to goalkeepers.
The morning gains follow recent run-ups that brought the benchmark Nikkei about 4.6 percent higher in the past three days of gains.
"But unfortunately you have to do the right thing at the end of the day and the run-ups and landing areas at both ends were just not fit for first-class cricket.
But after a second afternoon inspection finally concluded the bowlers' run-ups had been swamped so badly by last night's deluge that there was still no prospect of play, Gloucestershire captain Chris Taylor remained optimistic of a positive outcome over the final two days.
Indeed, many of the countries experiencing rapid run-ups of consumer credit are those which went through snaps of boom and bust in the middle 1990s.
From the poles and pits of the pole vault to the surfaces for racing and run-ups, no stone has been left unturned in protecting against mishaps.