Sentence examples for downwind with from inspiring English sources

Helicopters could only search downwind, with 80 to 90-yard visibility in heavy driving rain.

The boats hoisted their spinnakers and took off downwind, with Team New Zealand sailing deeper, or closer to the breeze, than the Swiss.

"A man lugs rocks, lugs wood, cracks lice, fights over a potato... learns to blow his nose downwind with one finger, wraps his sore feet in rags," Wander's narrator writes.

He then eagled the 519-yard, first hole, which played dead downwind, with a 329-yard drive, a 189-yard 7-iron, and a 6 1/2-foot putt.

Instead, one should opt for a high start launch, in which one flyer stands about 100 feet (30 metres) downwind, with the kite facing bridle-side to the other flyer, who holds the end of the kite's line.

Foil is the nautical vernacular for hydrofoil, and it means, in this case, that these catamarans are able to sail — at least downwind — with both hulls out of the water.

The concentration of carbon dioxide downwind decreased with increment of wind speed, while increased with increment of release rate.

He found that a fire would greatly increase the amount of plutonium blowing downwind afterward with the dust.

To achieve such moment reduction, a downwind configuration with a coning angle prescribed to allow load alignment for critical conditions could be used.

The tracer ratio method involves releasing a measured flux of a tracer gas upwind of the lagoon and measuring the concentration downwind along with the DOAS NH3 measurement.

To give credit where it's due, Army and Navy officials did worry "about the lethal impact of downwind fallout, with the Army explicitly concerned about limiting exposure of 'friendly forces and people' to radioactive fallout.