Sentence examples for rate of descent from inspiring English sources

Now only air could brake its rate of descent.

Rate of climb and, particularly, rate of descent must be indicated continuously because of their vital safety connotations.

The commander checked data to make sure that the computer was maintaining the proper rate of descent and direction of flight.

He managed to get the nose level but this did not prevent the aircraft "hitting the found with a high rate of descent".

According to Mr Giles, in a "loss-of-control situation" such as this the rate of descent normally "rockets" while the speed "really ramps up" before impact.

A drogue chute is released during free fall to slow the velocity to 120 miles an hour from 170 miles an hour, on a par with the rate of descent for a solo jumper.

Normalization of hematocrit was observed in 3 separate cohorts of B6 mice at similar rates of descent (data not shown).

Tags 18M, 30M and 40M had mean rates of descent that were significantly faster than the mean rates of ascent while offshore (18M descent 0.9±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1; 30M descent 0.9±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1; 40M descent 1.0±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1, for all three sharks, Mann-Whitney rank sum test p = 0.001).

The vibrating time was linear with the rate of viscosity descent.

There wasn't a consensus as to what a normal range for AGI was in baby boys or whether it is significant, but there was evidence that a shorter AGI correlated with a slower rate of testicular descent in animals.

By use of a preconditioning matrix to coalesce the eigenvalues of the linearized MHD forces around unity, it is possible to reduce the condition number substantially and thereby nearly eliminate the mesh size dependence of the convergence rate of the descent algorithm.