Sentence examples for parachuting at from inspiring English sources
It includes a strong vintage aircraft movement, and encompasses a range of air sports, such as racing, aerobatics, and parachuting, at which British teams and individuals have succeeded in international competition.
before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet.
Reportedly, the spacecraft became entangled in its main parachute at an altitude of several miles and fell back to Earth.
If all goes well, the 43-year-old will free-fall for five and a half minutes before opening a parachute at 5,000ft.
Various laws under consideration in Congress would introduce such measures as obligatory (but non-binding) votes on executive pay and golden parachutes at all public firms.
The highest previous recorded jump from a balloon was performed in 1960 by Joe Kittinger, a United States Air Force test pilot who leaped from 102,800 feet and exceeded 600 miles per hour before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet.
I attended a public performance in June of of African American men and women that blended traditions of the black church with dance, poetry and hip-hop under a parachute at the Great Hill in New York's Central Park.
The unrolling of the tether connecting the retrorockets and the rover, encased in air bags, also took longer than expected, so controllers have modified the Opportunity's landing sequence to deploy the parachute at a higher altitude.
Fear that the weight of the parachute, some 185 pounds (84 kg), could crash down on top of Nicholas upon landing caused him to cut away the da Vinci parachute at 2,000 feet (600 metres) and use a conventional parachute for the remaining descent.
After turning off the jet and rocket he will deploy an air brake at 800mph, parachutes at 600mph and finally put his foot on a car-type friction brake at 250mph any faster and the brakes could explode.Then the car is serviced and refuelled to do it all over again.
Release of a parachute at the apex of a rocket flight is a problem for every amateur rocket enthusiast.
