Sentence examples for achieved flight from inspiring English sources

They would have achieved flight in a completely different way to birds and would have had a lower angle of take off and initial flight trajectory.

The scenarios were compared in terms of flight time, control energy and number of maneuvers, flight distance, and achieved flight goals.

Despite spurious claims from my mate Rhys he has never actually achieved flight.

"Of further aggravation were stories of others who had supposedly achieved flight before the Wrights, the most annoying being that of a German American named Gustave Whitehead, who was said to have flown a plane of his own creation in Connecticut in 1901 and 1902.

Loons are ungainly, barely able to walk, achieving flight only after a long awkward struggle.

Christian Markow, a spokesman for the First Flight Centennial Celebration, said that either success or failure would "show how difficult achieving flight in the very beginning really was".

But of all the innovations brimming in toy vehicles these days, the most startling have been reserved for those that achieve flight.

Both Mr. Lilienthal and Mr. de Gayardon died trying to achieve flight with winged outfits, as did Eric Stephenson, Ms. Weiss's mentor and fiancé.

Earlier this summer an anonymous air-traffic controller filing a report to Chirp, the industry's confidential whistle-blowing agency, claimed that pilots of low-cost airlines were cutting corners to achieve flight timetables.

This is distinguished from certification flight testing, which is designed to formally validate system functionality and achieve flight readiness.

However, this flimsiness is almost certainly necessary to A) achieve flight, and B) keep it from causing too much destruction when it crashes.