Sentence examples for method of propulsion from inspiring English sources
Commercial aircraft after World War II continued to use the more economical propeller method of propulsion.
"Prolonged gliding behavior by diving marine mammals appears to be a general phenomenon, irrespective of the method of propulsion and size of the animal," the scientists reported.
Researchers have also tested in animals a rudimentary method of propulsion, in which a capsule with tiny electrodes fires a small charge into the intestinal wall, prompting a contraction that pushes the capsule up or down the tract.
He was a top high school and collegiate swimmer and set a National Collegiate Athletic Association record for the butterfly when the stroke was still accompanied by a frog-kick, rather than the current dolphinlike method of propulsion.
A hydrogen propeller is the method of propulsion of a conceptual supersonic vehicle that operates within a hydrogen-filled tube at cruise speed of 1 km/s.
A new method of propulsion, in which a nuclear reactor made the steam that drove the turbines, was a sealed system that, unlike the diesel engine, neither needed air nor emitted waste; human endurance was now the main limitation to the length of a submarine's voyage.
Describes alternative methods of propulsion (including steering) for small crafts (canoes, row boats, etc). and the pros and cons of each.
He constructed a number of monoplane models between 1884 and 1892, employing several methods of propulsion, including a crude compressed-air rotary engine developed in 1889.
Though the 102EX is just an experimental vehicle, Rolls-Royce said it had identified a need to explore cutting-edge methods of propulsion.
Newton's 3rd law seems contrary to our intuition because on Earth there are lots of sources of friction - providing much easier methods of propulsion!
The NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe, has spoken publicly in some detail about the problems of a manned landing on Mars, saying the nation would have to develop new methods of propulsion and electricity generation in space and a way to protect the astronauts from large radiation doses.
