Sentence examples for sweeping wings from inspiring English sources

Its fuselage, with the country's center of power placed in the cockpit, contains government buildings, banks, offices and hotels, while endless blocks of apartments and occasional shopping areas - known as superquadras and identified by letters and numbers -fill its two sweeping wings.

ABU CAMP, BOTSWANA Bringing drama to the Okavango Delta, the five tents at this revamped camp have sweeping, wing-shaped roofs, wrap-around decks and indoor-outdoor showers.

While the use of carbon fibre has allowed the creation of sweeping wing tips, which can cut fuel consumption by up to 5%, both aircraft are still fairly conventionally shaped.

Lateral stability was achieved by sweeping the wings up at the tips.

Independent studies in Germany and the United States showed that reaching the critical Mach could be delayed further by sweeping the wings back.

"These videos revealed that female mosquitoes carrying blood meals generate the extra lift they need to take off with such heavy loads by sweeping their wings across a greater distance during each wingbeat than do mosquitoes that are not carrying loads," Koehl noted.

Wind tunnel data is presented that confirms the favourable characteristics expected from sweeping the wing and achieving high pitch rates.

In his book, La France au Front, he states that Le Pen's success is a result "of the trend of protest politics, sweeping right-wing voters who were perplexed by their defeat in 1981, and of the fact that large French cities were already dealing with growing financial insecurity and immigration".

Sometimes like angels hovering, with sweeping white flamelike wings.

These symmetrical temple-like houses often have equally symmetrical, but low, wings sweeping away from them to accommodate horses, farm animals, and agricultural stores.

A passive mechanism for camber control at the outermost part of the wing may be the bending and sweeping of the wing tip.