Out the start gate, steep down, drop off, another steep, roller, roller, step up, glide, land – I could go on".
It will later be dropped from the plane to test its ability to glide and land.
They can glide over land and water.
It used photovoltaic cells to charge a battery that powered an electric motor, but could only fly five minutes, at which point it could either glide or land.
Many avian species soar and glide over land.
The craft resembled a miniature space shuttle and was designed to carry a small payload for several months and then reenter the atmosphere, glide to Earth, and land like a shuttle.
With the engine off, it then glided to landing about 10 minutes later.
The spaceship will glide to a landing.
The snake is one of only a handful that can launch itself from a tree and glide to a landing.
American aviation pioneer Burt Rutan's company Scaled Composites, for example, was developing SpaceShipOne (SS1), which would be carried to a high launch altitude by a twin-engine jet aircraft, rocket into space, and then glide to a landing.
