Sentence examples for oscillating wings from inspiring English sources

Oscillating wings are investigated as unsteady thrusters, augmenting ship's overall propulsion in waves.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A computer simulation of rapidly oscillating wings and the complex motions of fluids has proved that insect flight conforms to the physical principles of aerodynamics.

A vertical oscillating wing-keel is also considered in transverse oscillatory motion, which is induced by ship rolling and swaying.

To do that, it relies on the vestigial stubs of its hind wings, called halteres, which oscillate like wings but have now become a gyroscope, sensing body rotation.

"Things become very messy". Biologists with high-speed video cameras have been able to document the oscillating motions of insect wings as they move up and down and change pitch by tilting the edges, and the complex motions are beginning to be incorporated in the design of robotic "insect" wings.

Likud would remain in power under Netanyahu for more than a decade, at times by fragile coalitions and oscillating between centrist and right-wing coalitions.

Trimble applied to join the Ulster Unionist Party in 1978, after several years oscillating between law lecturing at Queen's University, Belfast and providing ideological input for Vanguard, an extreme right-wing unionist paramilitary force instrumental in destroying the 1973 Sunningdale agreement, the first attempt at power-sharing in a devolved Northern Irish Parliament.

"The ball is oscillating.

"The storm is oscillating.

"There weren't putts oscillating.

"The ball was oscillating on the fairways.