Sentence examples for slow flight from inspiring English sources

Different kinds of wakes are formed in slow flight, fast flight, and bounding (or intermittent) flight, which you can often see in birds such as goldfinches.

Because the planes are spending more time at higher altitudes in less dense air and less time in fuel-wasting slow flight configuration, aircraft performing the CDA used approximately 500 pounds less fuel than those using the standard approach procedure.

On the morning of day two he got Steve Smith in similar style, slow flight pulling him down the wicket before a lack of turn slipped past him for a stumping.

The slower the plane, the harder it was to keep it airborne; if slow flight could be achieved it bode well for the future of planes as a mode of transport.

The Manchester Guardian, keen to support the north-west of England as an aviation hub, sponsored a Slow Flight Cup to be awarded to the pilot who flew the slowest circuit of the week at Blackpool.

The flaps on conventional aircraft wings provide lift, allow safe slow flight and shorten takeoff and landing distances.

These teams can speed up or slow flights to mesh with airport and airspace ground operations.

Additionally, relatively short tails generate less lift in slow flights and reduce the ability of the tail to start or stop roll manoeuvres [9].

A decrease of Reynolds number due to a higher aspect ratio of the wing and a reduced ability of the tips to bend and generate lift due to relatively short notches at the wing tip result in a reduced capacity for very slow flights under high angles of attack [2], [13].

A Manchester Guardian photographer was on hand to record the historic occasion, with the paper sponsoring the "slowest flight" competition.

Lockheed Martin said Tuesday that several parts on the most complex version of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter were failing more often than expected, a problem that is slowing flight testing on a model tailored for the Marines.