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escape tower

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escape tower [ə′skāp ‚tau̇ยทər]
(aerospace engineering)
A trestle tower placed on top of a space capsule, connecting the capsule to the escape rocket on top of the tower; used for emergencies.


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Making a hasty escape Towers managed to conceal himself in the mist and avoided machine gun fire.
Its outwardly splayed north edge set against its concrete escape tower provides a vertical accent to balance the dominant horizontal.
Performing nightly in Colossus County Fair near the base of the Superman The Escape tower.
 
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