Sentence examples for approximate flight from inspiring English sources

The satellite data which suggests flight MH370 flew on for several hours are basic 'pings' sent by the plane, and so far only help to identify two very approximate flight corridors north and south.

In June 2000, a 20-year-old student with a mild viral illness (diagnosed before the flight) boarded a flight from Tel-Aviv, Israel, to Newark, New-Jersey, USA (approximate flight time, 11 12 hours), with a tour group of college-age students and their chaperones.

But his true passion was wingsuit flying — the enchantingly simple if technically daring pursuit that allows people to approximate bird flight — which frequently sent him over the edge of alpine precipices that, for their sheer scale and risk, put the London exploit to shame.

The large sections were located in a straight line with a bearing of 335 degrees, approximating the intended flight path.

The two XF-104s amassed an approximate total of 250 flight hours.

The final steady straight line trajectory is shown to project back to a virtual release height that is calculated numerically and shown to be a function of Ω. Approximate analytical solutions for the flight distance required to achieve the final steady-state slope are presented and show that the transition height is a function of Ω for small values of Ω but is independent of Ω for larger values.

Four escape flights were captured that approximate to that recorded for the putative Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis by Luneau in April 2004 and published in Fitzpatrick et al [ 1].

A recent trend in turboprop design has been the evolution of propellers for efficient operation at transonic flight speeds (those approximating the speed of sound), much higher than previously achieved up to Mach numbers of 0.85.

The adaptive fuzzy systems are employed for approximating unknown functions in the flight dynamic model and their parameters are updated online.

One drawback of using radio-transmitters is that we could not obtain exact altitudes for the birds and had to estimate them (see methods); thus, we could only approximate atmospheric conditions during the flights.

Travelers enter their approximate weight when they book a flight; at the airport, the airline weighs them and their bags to verify the weight.