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  2. Airspace - Wikipedia

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    Class A airspace is generally the airspace from 18,000 feet (~3.4 miles, 5.5 km) mean sea level (MSL) up to and including flight level (FL) 600 (~11.4 miles, 18.3 km), including the airspace overlying the waters within 12 nautical miles (NM) (~13.8 miles, 22.2 km) of the coast of the 48 contiguous states and Alaska. Unless otherwise authorized ...

  3. Aerospace - Wikipedia

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    In most industrial countries, the aerospace industry is a co-operation of the public and private sectors. For example, several states have a civilian space program funded by the government, such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States, European Space Agency in Europe, the Canadian Space Agency in Canada, Indian Space Research Organisation in India, Japan Aerospace ...

  4. Public space - Wikipedia

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    Public spaces have often been valued as democratic spaces of congregation and political participation, where groups can vocalize their rights. [1] Commons are early examples of public space. Malls, regardless of private ownership percentage, are examples of 'public space' since no fees or paid tickets are required for entry. However, most ...

  5. Airspace class - Wikipedia

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    Permanent two-way radio contact with ATC is required. Permission for using airspace is required except for the special cases listed in clause 114 of the Federal rules for using Russian air space. [11] Class B is not used. Class C airspace is defined below 8,100 metres (26,600 ft) and allows IFR and VFR operations. Both IFR and VFR operations ...

  6. Airway (aviation) - Wikipedia

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    All airspace above FL195 is class C controlled airspace, the equivalent to airways being called Upper Air Routes and having designators prefixed with the letter "U". If an upper air route follows the same track as an airway, its designator is the letter "U" prefix and the designator of the underlying airway.

  7. International waters - Wikipedia

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    Outer space (including Earth orbits; the Moon and other celestial bodies, and their orbits) national airspace: territorial waters airspace: contiguous zone airspace [citation needed] international airspace land territory surface: internal waters surface: territorial waters surface: contiguous zone surface: Exclusive Economic Zone surface

  8. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. It differs from location in that a place is conditions and features, and location is a position in space. [4] Places have physical characteristics, such as landforms and plant and animal life, as well as human characteristics, such as economic activities and languages. [1]

  9. Public open space - Wikipedia

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    A public open space is defined as an open piece of land both green space or hard space to which there is public access. Public open space is often referred to by urban planners and landscape architects by the acronym 'POS'. Varied interpretations of the term are possible. 'Public' can mean: owned by a national or local government body; owned by ...