Sentence examples for descent angle from inspiring English sources

Any challenge to the pilots would have been further complicated by the shutdown of a ground-based electronic system called a glide slope indicator, which helps keep planes at the correct descent angle.

The ground-controlled approach (GCA), in which a ground observer monitors the course and descent angle of an aircraft via radar, enables pilots to land under extremely adverse weather conditions.

But the captain of a 747 insisted it was working, and managed to tune the plane's radio to pick up some stray signal he concluded was the glide-slope indicator, which helps keep planes at the correct descent angle.

Seawards of the platform, the morphological gradient of the seafloor is greater, reaching an average descent angle of 0.5° down to a 35-m water depth.

Further investigation was conducted on the influences of various design factors of the HSC, including the descent angle and curvature profile of the trough, during the separation of a binary mineral particle mixture.

Cycle time, cadence, speed, step width, and step length were significantly affected by descent angle, while the proportion of the cycle dedicated to the stance and swing phases remained constant over the descent paths.

Unlike the ILS, the MLS, with its dynamic beam geometry, allows airplanes to follow various descent angles and travel along curved or segmented trajectories.

As planned, the maneuvering jets flipped the craft into descent configuration, or "angle of attack".

Source images were measured to determine levator hiatus height, bladder neck to pubococcygeal line, levator plate angle, and perineal descent at rest and maximum Valsalva.

We estimated the magnitude of the illusion as a function of peripheral eccentricity by measuring the physical angle of descent that created the perception of vertical descent.

You don't see that angle of descent.