Sentence examples for forms of flight from inspiring English sources

Environmentalists like George Monbiot cite their frugal use of fuel when compared to other forms of flight.

But one of the reasons we hunger for new forms of flight is that the thrill has a way of wearing off.

However, it is clearly remarkable that such an animal that had numerous other relatives with large feathers on their arms and would apparently "experiment" with different forms of flight at various times (not least ultimately producing birds) would take such a dramatically different route towards gliding, even if it was one commonly explored by other mammals.

Although Archaeopteryx is still considered the earliest animal capable of powered flight, a number of close non-avian relatives have at least some features that suggest they may have been capable of gliding or other passive forms of flight – trading height for distance and moving between trees as do animals like 'flying' frogs and 'flying' squirrels.

AeroVironment is pushing MacCready's fascination with alternative forms of flight into the front lines, building unmanned, hand-launched vehicles for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere.

Operating a space mission involves reams of paper in the forms of flight rules and operational procedures.

"This is the oldest and safest form of flight," said Kevin Knapp, the America's Challenge co-director.

The simplest form of flight control is called the visual flight rule, in which pilots fly with visual ground reference and a "see and be seen" flight rule.

But even when he was sitting in the cockpit himself, he longed for a purer form of flight, something that was, as he put it, "more birdlike".

His creations often dealt with "technology such as aviation, ironically," she said, then read aloud the words of another curator, Jorge Daniel Veneciano, about Mr. Richards's sculpture: "Each of his works engages the notion of flight in at least two important senses: as a form of flight away from what is repressive, and as a form of flight toward what is redeeming".

It is the most logical form of flight, dispensing as it does with large landing fields located far from city centres and the inevitable intervening modes of travel automobile, subway, bus that flight in conventional aircraft usually requires.