Sentence examples for time spent flying from inspiring English sources

Because with standard charters, the customer pays not only for the time he's using the plane but also for dead-heading-the time spent flying to pick up and perhaps waiting for the passenger.

We tested whether males differ in their propensity to adopt perching or patrolling behaviour by recording time spent flying during 30 min when alone in a large cage with only one large sunspot and many smaller ones, and whether subdominant males adopt a patrolling strategy by allowing dyads of males to interact in the cage for 60 min and recording the same behaviours again.

We log10 transformed time spent flying and PD data to meet assumptions of normality.

We used analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by a Tukey's HSD post-hoc test (SPSS v.16, SPSS Inc., USA) to determine the effects of treatments and species (A. jamaicensis/literatus, A. phaeotis, C. sowelli, G. soricina, or S. lilium) on time spent flying during trials.

They are easy to observe while foraging and appear to follow rules when visiting floral resources [2], [4], [6], the time spent flying and handling flowers can be measured [2], [6], [8], metabolic rate during activity has been calculated using experiments in the lab [9], and energy intake in the form of nectar can be measured and manipulated [6].

As such, we hypothesised that a decline in maternal provisioning of eggs with age and time spent flying, reduces the developing offspring's capacity for effective immune function.

This points to live Pteranodon spending a lot of time around open-water, and its flight-compliant anatomy indicates that most of this time was spent flying above it.

As part of the survey, respondents recorded information regarding the number of hours they spent flying during the time that smoking was allowed in airplane cabins.

In fact, fuel became such a pressing concern in jet warfare that fighters often could spend no more time flying combat air patrol than they spent flying to and from the patrol area.

The key to the hawk's training is in conditioning, which means finding the correct hunting, or "flying," weight i.e., the weight at which it would hunt if living in its natural environment which is different for each individual hawk, and getting the hawk fit by increasing both the time it spends flying and the distances over which it is called to the falconer.

Both adaptations are found in the family of saturniid moths, and it has been shown that the duration of their post-reproductive survival is governed by an enzyme system that controls the fraction of time spent in flight: procryptics fly more, exhaust themselves, and die quickly; aposematics fly less, conserve their energies, and live longer.