Sentence examples for thermals from inspiring English sources

Stopwatch, headphones for the long runs, thermals, that's about it.

I've got to have my thermals.

Do thermals count as a gadget?

Turkey vultures are not the most adept of creatures at riding thermals; their role in life is to glide low across the ground, using their acute sense of smell to sniff out carrion.

Combined with an ability to rise up on thermals to gain altitude, Dr Jones hopes TaLEUAS will be capable of flights lasting for days or even weeks.New types of solar cell are coming and prices are expected to fall.

It combines solar power with an ability to soar on thermals, created by rising hot air.

As a student, he had studied the turbulence inside them; as a champion glider in the 1940s and 1950s he had learned to ride on ridges, waves and thermals and had invented a gadget, the MacCready Ring, which showed the optimum speed to fly to avoid losing height between them.

Daydreaming in summer, looking upwards, he noticed that the larger birds, hawks and eagles, could stay aloft for longer, riding thermals with supreme elegance without flapping their wings.

They are able to use thermals (currents more buoyant than the surrounding air, usually caused by higher temperature) and orographic lift to climb to higher altitude and to glide for great distances.

Typical sources for such lift occur where wind is deflected upward by a hill or mountain ridge or in columns of warm air called "thermals," which are caused by the sun heating the Earth's surface unevenly.

These rising lumps of air, or thermals, may vary in diameter from a few tens to hundreds of metres as they ascend and mix with the cooler, drier air above them.