Sentence examples for on a glider from inspiring English sources
On D-Day, he was not in one of the many ships that crossed the English Channel but instead flew over on a glider and had to land in the middle of the night.
Later, with the help of Asbel and his mother, Nausicaä escapes on a glider.
The hope is that a dive could eventually cost about the same as a flight on a glider or ultralight, which -- on Oahu -- would run a tourist between $200 and $300, a little more for longer trips.
The purposes of this quasi-experimental, repeated-measures design study were to measure the effects of a glider swing on emotions, relaxation, and aggressive behaviors in a group of nursing home residents with dementia (n = 30).
His successor as commander of the 1st Airborne Division, Major-General George Hopkinson, had sold the commander of the British Eighth Army, General Bernard Montgomery, on Operation Ladbroke, a glider landing to seize the Ponte Grande road bridge south of Syracuse.
The altitude is not completely virgin territory; the space shuttle, which was in effect a glider on its way back to earth, used to traverse it at several times the speed of sound.
On 18 September 1928, Juan de la Cierva completed the first cross-Channel flight in an autogyro when he landed there after departing from Lympne in a Cierva C.8. Lissant Beardmore completed the first cross-Channel flight in a glider on 19 June 1931.
Do not take this as a guide on how to fly a glider in real life.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, who led one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds, died in a glider crash on Friday in Morocco.
They don't take reservations, so settle in on a porch glider with a cocktail and wait.
Although computers were used extensively in the park's design, elements of Soarin' Over California, an Imax-based attraction that gives visitors a simulated ride over the state on a hang glider, were designed using a large amount of guesswork.
