Sentence examples for airborne flight from inspiring English sources

Our results show that non-linear surface tension forces make interfacial flight energetically expensive compared with airborne flight at the relatively high speeds characteristic of waterlily beetles, and cause chaotic dynamics to arise naturally in these regimes.

By the time Flight 93 became airborne, Flight 11 was four minutes away from hitting the North Tower and Flight 175 was being hijacked; Flight 77 was climbing normally and was nine minutes away from being hijacked.

The UK Department for Transport said airborne flights were now being rerouted around the area where MH17 crashed.

In a statement last night the CAA said airlines had now been told by the European air traffic control body to avoid the region.The UK Department for Transport said airborne flights were now being rerouted around the area where MH17 crashed.

Once airborne, flights can still be rerouted for safety reasons by air traffic controllers as they enter a country's airspace so, in theory, the pilots of flight MH17 could have been warned by Ukrainian air traffic control of a threat from military forces on the ground more than 30,000ft below.

About three hours after the stoppage at LaGuardia ended, the airport posted a tweet announcing that on average, arrivals were being delayed by an hour and a half, departures by 45 minutes and airborne flights by an hour.

Had some of the models on the runways at Bryant Park this week lifted their arms, they might have been airborne, taking flight on their billowing poet's sleeves.

The proportion of airborne to flight borne solids within the drum was characterised through a combination of photographic analysis coupled with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation.

He co-wrote 2005's airborne thriller Flight Plan, which saw Jodie Foster take on the male lead and also changed Julia Roberts' part in upcoming thriller The Secret in their Eyes (based on the Oscar-winning Argentinian film) to a woman.

The "sea ice" (c) image is from an airborne CONVAIR flight in Canada in 2001.

And the "Foulum" (d) agricultural and urban area is from an airborne EMISAR flight over Denmark in 1998.