Sentence examples for sink rate from inspiring English sources

Costello had calibrated the sink rate of his lines and gave precise instructions on how long to allow them to descend.

Sailplanes have streamlined bodies and long, narrow wings that give them a combination of a low sink rate and a very flat glide.

Three seconds after the warning — in the form of a mechanical voice saying, "Sink rate, sink rate" — one of the two pilots told the other that the runway was in sight, according to the safety board member, Robert Sumwalt, who was at the crash site.

The dynamic ground effect requires the radio height and sink rate in the models.

In some cases, however, a notable difference in thermal conductivity has a beneficial effect on the joint: for example, no heat-affected zones were produced in a study using friction stir welding, due to the high sink rate resulting from the high thermal conductivity of Cu (Sarvghad-Moghaddam, et al., 2014).

With the loss of all hydraulics, the crew were unable to control airspeed independent from sink rate.

Developed to minimise depredation of toothfish by sperm whales and killer whales, the re-designed gear configuration resulted in a fivefold increase in mean sink rates of baited hooks (from 0.15 m/s to 0.80 m/s), making them inaccessible to seabirds.

The distinction between source and sink rates were further quantified by estimating the variance of rates in columns to the variance of rates in rows (Additional file 2: Table S2, Additional file 1: Figure S6), which showed the variances were significantly smaller in the source to sink direction than the reverse.

Its sinking rate, determined from the flow required for stabilization, changed from 37.2 to 3.3 mm/s over this time.

It appears that hands-on experiences solidified systematic mistakes about how an object's heaviness relates to its sinking rate.

Thus, hands-on experiences appear to have negatively impacted performance, leading participants to make more systematic mistakes when predicting the sinking rate of real objects.