"flight in formation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a group of aircraft flying in the same direction and in a formation. Example Sentence: Our squadron of fighter jets flew in formation across the desert sky.
They then relocated again to Aalborg-West in Denmark from where they made a low-level flight in close formation over the Skaggerak, landing at Stavanger-Sola.
Thus they use thermals for soaring to heights of 3000 m (10,000 ft) or more, combined both with gliding and with flapping flight in V formation, to commute distances of up to 150 km to feeding areas.
"Flight Behavior" ends dramatically, with the monarchs miraculously surviving the harsh snowstorms and leaving Tennessee like "an airborne zootic force flying out in formation, as if to war".
Learning from Birds Birds in flight expend less energy in formation, The Economist notes, and now a Stanford University team has applied the V principle to aircraft.
The problem formulation of disturbance rejection and closed-loop system stabilization with actuator failures in formation flight in Sun Earth L2 is given.
A procedure to compute guidance commands for controlling the relative geometry of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in formation flight is proposed.
In formation flight aircraft dynamics are coupled by aerodynamic effects due to the vortices leaving the lifting surfaces, such as changes in lift and drag forces and lateral/directional effects that do not appear in a steady-level 'isolated' flight.
To fill the gaps in angular coverage within spatial, spectral and temporal requirements, we propose a new measurement technique: use of small satellites in formation flight, each satellite with a VNIR (visible and near infrared) imaging spectrometer, to make multi-spectral, near-simultaneous measurements of every ground spot in the swath at multiple angles.
Leaders use hand signals, head nods, aircraft movements, or radio calls to alert their wingmen of changes in flight attitude, formation positions, split-ups, rejoins, and radio frequencies.
Blackpool's hero Brett Ormerod paid tribute to his manager, Ian Holloway, as the club became arguably the smallest in the top flight since the formation of the Premier League.
