Sentence examples for water plane from inspiring English sources

The small water plane area makes the structure very sensitive to weight increase in terms of payload and stability.

Optimization results for a slack catenary mooring system indicate the benefits of combining submerged volume with a widely dispersed water plane area.

FFO can work in wider range of sea states than conventional float-over methods due to its small water plane area and large mass.

Here, we apply the use of an effective method called the "gravimeter array method" (Tanaka, 2010a) to remove the gravity change caused by inland water fluctuations by cancellations using two continuous gravimeters with a free water plane between them.

Although it is a rare environment in which a gravimeter can be installed under a free water plane, such an installation would be possible if the performance of borehole gravimeters were to improve in the future.

A number of researchers have predicted changes in gravity due to variations in land-water distributions through empirical models, by assuming a simple gravity response to the water plane thickness (e.g., Imanishi et al., 2006; Nawa et al., 2009).

The Quadski rose up, most of its body out of the water — planing, as boaters would say — and quickly eclipsed that 40 m.p.h.

But in return for freedom's partial erosion, we have a right to expect that our cities, water, planes and children really will be better protected than they have been.

Overhead, water planes and fire helicopters darted in and out of the billowing clouds of smoke, as air crews tried to buy time for the ground crews by slowing the fire's advance.

After a crash in 1961, Grønlandsfly used PBY Catalina water planes and DHC-6 Twin Otters on domestic routes.

Founded in 1960 as Grønlandsfly, the airline started its first services with Catalina water planes and within the decade expanded to include DHC-3 Otters as well as Sikorsky S-61 helicopters, some of which remain in active service.