In straight climbing flight, lift is less than weight.
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In straight, climbing flight at constant airspeed, thrust exceeds drag.
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Every aircraft type has limits on the pitch-power settings that can be used for climbing flight.
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Following Pegasus booster separation, the vehicle experienced a small drop in speed but the scramjet engine afterward accelerated the vehicle in climbing flight.
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Surprisingly, despite predictable tail winds that blow up the Himalayas ( in the same direction of travel as the geese ), bar-headed geese spurn these winds, waiting for them to die down overnight, when they then undertake the greatest rates of climbing flight ever recorded for a bird, and sustain these climbs rates for hours on end, according to research published in 2011.