Sentence examples for secondary flight from inspiring English sources
The secondary flight feathers are attached to the ulna, which thus directly transmits force from the flight muscles to these feathers and is therefore relatively heavier than the radius.
The diffractometer will have a primary flight path of 40 m and a secondary flight path of 2.0 m for 90° scattering detector banks, and will include a curved supermirror neutron guide to avoid intensity loss due to the long flight path and to reduce backgrounds from fast neutrons and gamma rays.
The wings are long and broad, suitably shaped for soaring and gliding flight, and have the unusually large number of 30 to 35 secondary flight feathers.
The hydraulics provided actuation for all the primary flight controls; all secondary flight controls except leading edge slats; and landing gear retraction, extension, gear steering, and wheel braking.
It also features three primary and two secondary flight control systems, as well as a flight envelope limit protection system which prevents manoeuvres from exceeding the aircraft's aerodynamic and structural limits.
By their fourth year, males have assumed their nuptial plumage, where the scapulars, secondary wing coverts, and secondary flight feathers are white while the rest of their bodies are a vibrant cobalt blue.
Rather than a membrane that attaches along the length of the pectoral skeletal elements, bird wings are mainly composed of primary (1°) and secondary (2°) flight feathers (remiges, sing. remex), that have restricted, focal attachment points to the underlying skeleton.
Next, it uses mainly secondary airports; flights to the "Miami Area" touch down in Fort Lauderdale – handily, a leading port for Caribbean cruises.
Other jobs on the list include teachers at the post-secondary level, flight attendants and air traffic controllers.
Electron microscopy and time of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy were used to examine the surface characteristics of the scaffolds.
To confirm what the microbodies were composed of, they used a technique with a catchy little name: time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
