Sentence examples for take bearings from inspiring English sources
Moreover, their wings flap like those of real insects, rather than rotating.Dr Wood has built simple eyes into his drones, and these act like occelli, which are small eye spots that insects use to take bearings on the sun or the moon, so that they can fly at a constant angle to these distant light sources and thus maintain a straight course.
In later transmissions Earhart asked the ITASCA to take bearings on her.
Behind the barrage line lay a second line of defence, which used wireless interception to take bearings on German artillery observation aircraft and guide British aircraft into areas where German flights were most frequent.
Take bearings of two or more objects, plot them on your chart and where the lines cross is your approximate location.
Incidentally, the Brautigan Library is the subject of another art work, by Banu Cennetoglu, on view at Artists Space in a show called "Frozen Lakes" — it is a large poster, free to take, bearing the library's astrological chart.
When the moon came out enough he stopped and took bearings.
We tried taking bearings with a hand-held compass, but it proved fairly useless because even on a calm day the boat bounced around too much.
Color-field painting, minimalism, and Pop art all took bearings from the vast, stripped-down, acutely scaled presence of Newman's work.
The liquid magnetic compass, now almost universally used, is commonly accompanied by an azimuth instrument for taking bearings of distant objects.
The last two days we spent as individual skippers, and with Giles's support, planned and executed mini-passages, taking bearings and directing the crew, which felt like a real achievement to end the trip on.
