Free of the water, its wings can take over, and it can make a safe, controlled landing near the teacup or whatever it was imprisoned in.
Even when it is slowed by air and water, its progress usually remains close to this limit.
The video report includes an image of the plane as it comes to rest in the water, its wake clearly visible.
Scottish Power, Britain's biggest electric utility, said that it no longer planned to sell Southern Water, its water utility in southern England.
When nuclear reactions warm the water, its density drops, and the neutrons passing through it are no longer slowed enough to trigger further reactions.
It eyed us cautiously and circled in the water, its three-feet long, chestnut- brown body hardly breaking the surface.
He stayed on his feet when the white water, its energy exhausted, finally caught him, and he worked it back and forth all the way to the sand.
The crane then lowered the R.O.V. into the turbulent water, its snubbed head pitching forward, its fibre-optic cable trailing behind it, like an endless tail.
As SMS Dresden took on water, its crew jumped ship.
Unlike water, its counterpart in the Millennium Development Goals, sanitation has remained largely off corporate agendas.
A great white breaks the surf, barely in the water, its teeth around a grey seal.
