Sentence examples for flight style from inspiring English sources

Much has been redone since then, but the basics of the Virgin Galactic flight style are the same.

Any artificial wing that doesn't stretch and billow like the bat's membrane is missing out on a key characteristic of its flight style.

On the other hand, eliminate too many of the joints and the resulting flight style is nothing like the fluid, elegant motion of the bat.

The North Pacific albatrosses can use a flight style known as flap-gliding, where the bird progresses by bursts of flapping followed by gliding.

The peregrine falcon has the additional advantage of a natural flight style of circling above the falconer ("waiting on") for game to be flushed, and then performing an effective and exciting high speed diving stoop to take the quarry.

Wing planform is highly diagnostic of flight style in extant animals [85], but controversy over the shape of the pterosaur brachiopatagium has resulted in multiple interpretations of azhdarchid flight style.

However, predicting the absolute value of this upper limit has proven difficult because wing morphology and flight styles varies among species.

Within the wing, however, variations in underlying bone ratios may permit a range of different flight styles, by possibly facilitating variation in upstroke kinematics [6].

Specifically, the line of best fit is depressed at lower body masses and elevated at high body masses, because slow speed flapping flight styles seen in smaller birds are associated with short-wings, while the soaring flight styles of larger birds favour longer wings [4].

Evidence for and against flighted lifestyles from their sedimentological contexts of these pterosaurs is also presented, and we compare the probable flight styles of the largest pterosaurs, demonstrating that different giant taxa employed distinct flight styles and cannot be treated as mechanically analogous as they have been in some studies.

Rather, they plot in adaptive space not occupied by any modern vertebrate fliers, suggesting their flight styles are not represented in the modern day if the attributes calculated to them by Chatterjee and Templin are accurate.