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Old Oct 21, 2009 | 11:59 pm
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Typical airliner cruises about 2 or 3 degrees nose high. Some might be as low as 1 or as high as 4, but none that I know of go as high as 10 degrees. The only time you will see 10 degrees is on takeoff it will get up to almost 20 degrees, but only for a short period of time. I would say that within 5 minutes it down around 5 degrees until cruise altitude. Cruise pitch also will depend on weight, speed, etc.
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