Sentence examples for means of propulsion from inspiring English sources

I snatched at the possibilities of meanings for the plural noun. 1) A shortening of propellers, a means of propulsion in the prejet era; no, nothing new about that.

"They had no means of propulsion," Mr. Habib said.

It's basically a balloon with a rudder and a means of propulsion.

More sustainable vehicles Cars will be lighter, powered by smaller engines or alternative means of propulsion.

A major limitation of the early submarines was their lack of a suitable means of propulsion.

It provides a great review of the possible means of propulsion to take a spacecraft to the nearest stars.

Rocket and missile system, any of a variety of weapons systems that deliver explosive warheads to their targets by means of rocket propulsion.

Though the steam engine gave way to the internal-combustion engine as a means of vehicle propulsion, interest in it revived in the second half of the 20th century because of increasing air-pollution problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels in internal-combustion engines.

A simple and effective mathematical method to calculate optimal station-keeping manoeuvres by means of electric propulsion is suggested.

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in Solar Sails as an alternative means of space propulsion.

Due to the fact that the direction of Lorentz force is determined by the local magnetic field and the velocity of the spacecraft with respect to the local magnetic field, which does not necessarily coincide with that of the required control acceleration for hovering, thus, in most cases, the Lorentz force works as a means of auxiliary propulsion to reduce the expenditure of fuel onboard.