Sentence examples for continuous flight from inspiring English sources

But given Argentavis's overall weight, the muscles would not have provided nearly enough power for continuous flight.

The Solar Impulse 2 set off about 3am from Nagoya, Japan, en route to Hawaii, a trip expected to take five days and nights of continuous flight.

Comprising 30 locks, the Tardebigge Flight is the longest continuous flight of locks in Britain and raises the canal 217 feet (66 metres).

The shorebirds lie between the other suborders in flight adaptations; their wings are not adapted for soaring, but they are strong fliers and cover great distances in continuous flight.

After two days of continuous flight, the time shown by the airborne clocks differed by fractions of a microsecond from that shown by a synchronized clock left on Earth, as predicted.

The idea is to circle the globe in five stages, each taking four or five days of continuous flight (which is about as much as a pilot could endure).

Receiving an offprint a few years later, Escher wrote to Lionel expressing his admiration for the "continuous flights of steps" in the paper, and enclosing a print of Ascending and Descending.

Many of the nightjars and nighthawks feed in continuous hawking flight, which may be rather erratic as they pursue their prey.

And Russian aerialists in the Sky Surfers troupe accomplish what the circus trumpets as the "world's longest continuous human flight," as a daring young man traverses 180 feet across trapezes, bungee cords and a trampoline above the three rings.

The total simulation time would correspond to a maximum of ≈80 90 hr of continuous bat flight in the (2.5 m) volume.

Continuous bomber flights outside of Afghanistan will be reduced, and there will be cutbacks to satellite systems and missile warning systems.