Sentence examples for glider from inspiring English sources

How when his glider hit the ground in occupied France at 16 minutes past midnight on 6 June, shaking up the men inside, everything went dark.

Howard's glider came down only 47 yards from the bridge at Bénouville.

A long-time member, Peter Rücker, who watched Lubitz learn to fly, said he had been upbeat when he returned to the club last autumn to renew his glider pilot's licence.

Pattinson is among several glider pilots and passengers to be portrayed, including Patrick Turner, a private with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, whose glider landed within 50 metres of Pegasus bridge before he joined in the successful attack on the position.

But he was seen limping after flying a motorised hang glider with Siberian cranes in 2012, raising concerns about his health.

He would then cross the road that divides the Normandy hamlet of Bénouville to survey the old Pegasus bridge and the stumpy concrete monument marking the spot where his glider landed in the early minutes of 6 June 1944 in what was the first operation of D-Day.

Today, even a trainer such as the Falcon 4 can have an L/D of ten-to-one, while a hang-glider designed for cross-country competitions, like the Wills Wing T2C, will have an L/designedr 15-to-one.

So in 2006 he converted a powered hang-glider, removing its small combustion engine and replacing it with a battery and an electric motor.

As Otto Lilienthal, the Prussian inventor of the hang-glider, once said: Opfer müssen gebracht werden (sacrifices must be made).

Mr Lange is also supplying the power system to Schempp-Hirth, another German glider-maker, which is developing a two-seater version called the Arcus E.Gliders are all very well, but the most exciting area of development is the construction of electric aircraft that are quite good at gliding but, like a small Cessna or Piper, can also be used for longer journeys.

After studying various wing structures for his "Codex on the Flight of Birds", he sketched numerous gliders controlled by a human being slung beneath the wings, much like a hang-glider of today.