Sentence examples for vertical dive from inspiring English sources

The pilot offered to do a vertical dive but Smith declined, having seen too many such dives from the ground.

He aspired to the idea of hawk: the high freedom, the swift and effortless flight, the sharpness of eye, the vertical dive.

This abruptly pitched the nose of the aircraft downward, putting it beyond a vertical dive into inverted half-loop.

It made a violent snap roll and went into a vertical dive, crashing within 1.5 mile of Montmédy.

In the course of the turn, at 1,600 feet, the Boeing banked too far, flipped past 90 degrees, and began an upside-down, nose-first descent in a nearly vertical dive.

Many diving ducks are bottom feeders that make shallow vertical dives from the surface to the benthos.

On his fourth sortie, he went into a near-vertical dive while pursued by a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter.

We now had the answer for our pilots who were being outmaneuvered and unable to escape a pursuing Zero: Go into a vertical power dive, using negative acceleration if possible to open the range while the Zero's engine was stopped by the acceleration.

To eliminate minor vertical movements, dives used in this analysis were those longer than 20 minutes where the temperature changed by more than 10°C.

The frequent repetitive vertical movement dives are not characteristic of behavioral thermoregulation, where there tends to be a plateau at depth, presumably associated with foraging, and sometimes another at the surface for body temperature to recover [39], [59], [60].

With a top speed of 65 mph, the ride features six inversions including a 124 feet vertical loop, two dive loops, an inclined loop, and two corkscrews.