It will tell a pilot sitting at the end of the runway waiting to take off how far he can expect to see under existing conditions on the runway.

Waiting is different than sitting. When you are waiting, you're hoping. When you are sitting, you're doing nothing.

It was not skidding off the runway. Actually the landing was smooth, but the pilot had to turn the aircraft at the end of the airstrip to the taxi way because he felt that something went wrong with the aircraft's nose wheel during the landing.

He was sitting all over it. It would have bounced in the dirt. ... Obviously, it was what he was waiting for.

Those eggs have been sitting in the high marsh for as long as two years waiting for something like this.

They could be just sitting there smoldering right now.