feet per minute , fpm (abbreviation)

Two to three hundred feet per minute was about right.

This is usually represented with numbers in "thousands of feet per minute."

Metal can travel through these machines at up to 150 feet per minute.

He could see that the vertical descent rate had increased to 12,000 feet per minute.

The first officer called that the aircraft was in a 2000 feet per minute descent.

Their rate of descent could be maintained at approximately 500 feet per minute.

Ground fell away, a wide green floor cut loose from us, falling clear a thousand feet per minute.

The standard escalator moves at a rate of 120 feet per minute.

The airplane settled into her climb, going up something less than a thousand feet per minute.

Next was a low screen painted with shrubs and brush, which moved at 400 feet per minute.

Behind that, another screen with paintings of more distant scenery moved at 130 feet per minute.

In general roll forming lines can run from 5 feet per minute to 500 + depending on the application.

I learned, for instance, that the top speed of an escalator is fixed at about 144 feet per minute.

Minutes later the plane was in the air, climbing to its cruising altitude at four thousand feet per minute.

Rate of descent is twenty-one hundred feet per minute.

Next, the gas passes through a fan which maintains a flow rate of about six cubic feet per minute.

He begins to apply up elevator until the vertical speed indicator shows 500 feet per minute.

The pilot reported that the aircraft was losing 200 feet per minute after choosing to fly to an airport.

Both pairs of eyes locked onto the dial that gave them vertical velocity in feet per minute.

I don't want to see any more than eight hundred feet per minute all the way down unless I say so.'

They headed out across the Mississippi river and over Illinois, climbing at 3000 feet per minute.

Wear is measured not in miles per hour, but in feet per minute.

Their 400,000-pound bird suddenly did become a rocket ship, headed skyward at almost ten thousand feet per minute.

Safety board sources close to the inquiry said the flight had been descending at an unusually steep rate of about 3,500 feet per minute.

After a slowdown by production line staff, Ford management reduced the line speed back to 18 feet per minute.