Sentence examples for glider tests from inspiring English sources

From 1900 until their first powered flights in late 1903, they conducted extensive glider tests that also developed their skills as pilots.

The glider was based on the Wrights' experience in 1899 with a kite designed to test their "wing-warping" control system, on two less-successful gliders tested in 1900 and 1901, and on information gathered during the course of wind-tunnel tests conducted in the fall and winter of 1901 02.

From Icarus' brush with the Sun, and immortal fame, man has felt compelled to fly or glide in some form: parachutes were developed in the late 1700s, and hang-gliders were tested a hundred years later.

The glider was also tested unmanned while suspended from a small homemade tower.

You may also put on what would work as wings, like the test glider.

This motor glider is a flying test laboratory designed to further the development of fuel cells for aerospace applications.

In one eight-day test, the glider, made by California-based Liquid Robotics and which moves at less than walking speed, made 200 detections of 19 individual sharks.

After several years of tests with gliders and engines in the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wrights made their first flight on December 17 , 1903

Over the past two and a half years, SpaceShipTwo has made a series of tests as a glider.

As the English aeronautical historian C.H. Gibbs-Smith has noted, the tests of this glider represented the first "true aeroplane flight" in history.

The aircraft was conceived in discussions between Chanute and Herring during tests of other glider designs in the sand dunes ringing the southern shore of Lake Michigan from June 22 to July 4 , 1896