Sentence examples for fixed wing flight from inspiring English sources

It will be the last fixed wing flight out of Ny Alesund for a while.

Most missions use fixed wing flight 75% or more of the time, reducing wear and tear and operational costs.

This fixed wing flight is higher than typical helicopter missions allowing longer range line-of-sight communications for improved command and control.

The first scientific exposition of the principles that ultimately led to the successful helicopter came in 1843 from Sir George Cayley, who is also regarded by many as the father of fixed-wing flight.

In this telling, the 1793 Deptford, New Jersey, landing of a hot-air balloon is given primacy over the Philadelphia launch of the same balloon; the 1909 fixed-wing flight by the Boland Brothers, of Rahway, gets good screen time, the 1903 Wright Brothers flight does not.

This paper presents a model of an agile tail-sitter aircraft, which can operate as a helicopter as well as capable of transition to fixed-wing flight.

This paper presents a novel model of large-size tilt-rotor aircraft, which can operate as a helicopter as well as being capable of transition to fixed-wing flight.

Often helicopters need to make more than one flight for each connection to a fixed-wing flight because of passenger capacity, causing longer total travel time.

A day before Britain was scheduled to start pulling some of its helicopters out of Mozambique, an air logistics coordinator said helicopters and fixed-wing flights remained a crucial part of the relief effort.

The Armenian capital Yerevan has said it will re-open a refurbished airport in Nagorno-Karabakh for fixed-wing flights, claiming it would be a humanitarian move to improve the lives of the region's inhabitants.

During the monitoring phase of Operation Sky Monitor, unauthorized fixed-wing flights averaged twenty per month, but during Deny Flight, the average was three.