Sentence examples for soaring flight from inspiring English sources

Our estimate for MR of migrating European bee-eaters during cross-country soaring-gliding flight, stopover soaring flight, and prolonged rest were about twice their BMR.

Heart beat frequency of bee-eaters measured during cross-country soaring-gliding flight or during stopover soaring flight was statistically indistinguishable from fH measured during prolonged (>10 minutes), motionless, rest (Wilcoxon paired signed rank test, N = 6 birds, Z = 0.73, p = 0.46 and N = 6, Z = 0.11, p = 0.92, for cross-country flights and stopovers, respectively).

Gliding, also called soaring, flight in an unpowered heavier-than-air craft.

It intertwined romance, cheating and international conflicts with soaring flight scenes.

Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings are at the Courtauld Gallery, London WC2 until 17 January.

An introductory soaring flight at a commercial flight school, by comparison, can cost as much as $200.

There is a sensual, erotic quality to the air scenes; his budding love for his fiancée, Naoko, is conveyed through the soaring flight of paper aeroplanes.

In late antiquity Pegasus's soaring flight was interpreted as an allegory of the soul's immortality; in modern times it has been regarded as a symbol of poetic inspiration.