Sentence examples for glider flying from inspiring English sources

Kenley - said to be the best preserved Battle of Britain site - is used for training cadets in glider flying.

Its solution involves a tethered, carbon fibre glider flying in circles at an altitude of up to 350m, carrying up to 8 small turbines producing 600KW of power.

Here he attended the glider flying school of the Austrian Aëro Club.

Born into a devoutly religious family, he showed an early passion for glider flying; against his father's wishes, he joined the Luftwaffe in 1936.

The first unmanned glider flew a century before the Wright Flyer, and unpiloted, powered aircraft made their appearance in the first decades of the 20th century.

In wave soaring, the glider flies along vertical waves of wind that form on the lee side of mountain ranges (the side protected from fiercer winds).

Those hands were cut up in the crash landing of an Army glider flown over the bloody Normandy beaches; Thurmond was already 44 years old then.

Along with the standard glider flown by Otto Lilienthal of Germany, the Chanute glider, designed by Chanute but also incorporating the ideas of his young employee Herring with regard to automatic stability, was the most influential of all flying machines built before the Wright brothers began designing aircraft.

Pre-Second World War aircraft includes replicas of the 1911 Blackburn Mercury Monoplane, and of Sir George Cayley's glider - flown in 1849 at Brompton near Scarborough in the first manned flight, more than 54 years before the Wright brothers' first powered flight in the USA.

In the first tests, probably October 3, Wilbur was aboard while the glider flew as a kite not far above the ground with men below holding tether ropes.

(This ratio also means that an unpowered hang-glider flying at a constant speed moves 15 metres forward for every one metre it descends).