Sentence examples for phenomenon of flight from inspiring English sources

For much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds, including his c. 1505 Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plan for several flying machines, including a flapping ornithopter and a machine with a helical rotor.

The phenomenon of insect flight has been of scientific interest for many years and is more recently inspiring modern engineering devices such as Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs).

For example, in the case of the USA, Cullen and Levitt (1999) analyze the phenomenon of population flight from city centers to surrounding suburbs, and find that an increase in various crimes leads to a significant decline in cities' population.

Communities like Smithtown, where Burke grew up, emerged largely through the phenomenon of white flight, where Caucasian families dealt with the specter of urban crime by fleeing from the five boroughs and heading toward the sea.

Michael Goldfarb is describing a phenomenon of family-flight that has long been a part of the metropolitan experience.

"We suggest [the syrinx] might be a late- arriving phenomenon, after the origin of flight and respiratory innovation like continuous breathing".

The effects of flight on the phenomenon of broadband noise amplification associated with tone excited jets are also discussed briefly.

We report on a new time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer designed to investigate sputtering phenomena induced by swift heavy ions in the electronic stopping regime.

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger depth profiling and time-of-flight secondary ions mass spectrometry are combined to investigate inter-diffusion phenomena.

Second in importance was the observation of lightning and of such other celestial phenomena as the flight of birds (also important in the religion of the Umbri and of the Romans).

Three-dimensional time-of-flight.