Sentence examples for glide flights from inspiring English sources

Mr Whitesides said SpaceShipTwo will make a series of additional glide flights before rocketing to space.

The spaceship has flown 22 glide flights to ensure it can be landed successfully every time and the rocket motor has had about 30 firings.

The opening of the nearly two-mile (three-kilometre) runway comes less than two weeks after another major step for Sir Richard's Virgin Galactic company: the first solo glide flight of SpaceShip Two.

Gliding flights established a data base for aerodynamics and aircraft design.

Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo achieved its first solo glide flight, marking another step in the company's eventual plans to fly paying passengers.

There was little damage to the vehicle, however, and, due to the ease of repairing composite structures, SS1 was able to execute a glide flight less than three months later.

Periods of glide flight would also be likely to reduce masking compared with flapping.

On the other hand, an interval of reduced noise is an obvious result of birds synchronized in glide flight.

Heights of 500-1000 mayay be reached as birds glide over flights of 20 km or more.

Flapping flight in European bee-eaters thus consists of flap-glide flights with a power fraction (the proportion of the cycle during which the bird actively flaps) of 0.5 (see [41], [42], and compare with [43]).

A notable feature of this clade is the presence of gliding flight in most species of Chrysopelea, less-developed non-flight jumping with similar locomotor origins in Dendrelaphis, and homologous glide-related traits in Ahaetulla[ 184].