Sentence examples for fixed wing aviation from inspiring English sources

Major force elements included special forces, rotary and fixed wing aviation and naval units.

A single ambulance service provides road and air (fixed wing and helicopter) transport of patients.

This paper presents a hybrid design of flapping wing and fixed wing, which combines two flapping wings and two fixed wings to take advantage of the double wing clap-and-fling effect for high thrust production, and utilizes the fixed wings as the stabilizing surfaces for inherently stable hovering flight.

Dr. Schultz piloted fixed wing aircraft as well as helicopters.

David holds a Commercial Instrument Pilot rating (fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft) from the Federal Aviation Administration.

As a result, adaptations of conventional rotary wing and fixed wing entries have always been the overall winners, with airships and ducted fans a close second.

But what enabled the aviation age were fixed wings and powerful engines.

Since the late 1990s, a series of experimental and a host of burgeouning commercial activities for fixed-wing aviation have focused on glider, ultra-light and light-sport airplane, and this is proving to serve as a cornerstone for more ambitious transport aircraft design and integration technical approaches.

In 1996, all fixed-wing aviation units were transferred to CFB Cold Lake.

Helicopter pilots fly at a different pattern altitude than fixed wings and this is to avoid the flow of fixed wing traffic.

The aircraft has rotors much like a helicopter and also has fixed wings.