Sentence examples for glider down from inspiring English sources
Holding on for dear life (and pulling the hang glider down) was keeping me grounded.
Howard's glider came down only 47 yards from the bridge at Bénouville.
He then brought SpaceShipOne back to earth as a glider, touching down at 8 15.
After the glider came down hard, the shaken coachman announced, "I wish to give notice, sir, I was hired to drive and not to fly" -- hardly a celebratory end to what was evidently the first true manned glide in history.
But when the gliders swooped down in the dark they were decimated by the hedgerows, and hundreds of young men died.
Although 19 of 72 C-46 aircraft were destroyed during Operation Varsity, losses of other aircraft types from AA fire during the same operation were also significant, including 13 gliders shot down, 14 crashed, and 126 damaged; 15 Consolidated B-24 bombers shot down, and 104 damaged; and 30 C-47s shot down and 339 damaged.
An innovative control system allows a foam glider to touch down on a perch or a wire like a pet parakeet.
The crew would deploy a small drogue parachute in the tail, point the glider's nose down so it could fall quickly into thicker air, and then jettison the chute.
--A limited structural failure could have turned the jetliner into a glider while shutting down all of the craft's electrical and mechanical systems.
She steered the glider through upside-down loops and twists that left her giddy.
