Sentence examples for airspeed of from inspiring English sources

That is too weak to reach an airspeed of 27 m.p.h.

The glider's system will be tricked by the thin atmosphere into showing an airspeed of 46 miles an hour, about what it needs to stay aloft.

If an airliner with an airspeed of 550mph enters a jet stream (as they do on the eastbound Atlantic crossing), the result can be to fly at 800mph with respect to the ground, above sound's 740mph.

As the aircraft accelerates, the airspeed of a blade (and thus the amount of lift it provides) increases when that blade is moving forwards and decreases when it is moving backwards.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a critical period of nearly 30 seconds shortly before impact, none of the three pilots in the cockpit of the Asiana jet that crashed here on Saturday mentioned the airspeed of their Boeing 777, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

Once again we stress that in this equation v is the airspeed of the vehicle, not its ground speed.

Airspeeds of the new fighters jumped to more than 400 miles per hour, and some planes could operate at altitudes of 30,000 feet.

The optimized twist angle is α = 15° in terms of starting acceleration and maximum no load speed at low airspeeds of U = 6.5 m/s.

Fuel economy as a function of airspeed for a 2003 Chevy Suburban driven at a constant ground speed of 113 km/h (70 mph).

A Monty Python fan even asked the governor, "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Hundreds of New Yorkers posed prodding, pointed and even pointless questions to Andrew M. Cuomo when the governor, responding to concerns about transparency in his administration, sat down one Saturday morning in September to field inquiries online.

This paper proposes a design method of a flight control system for automatic refueling based on the line-of-sight (LOS) angle control in conjunction with range and airspeed control of the receiver aircraft.