How To Use Glider In A Sentence

Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
Music leaked softly from the windows behind him, when he'd resumed his seat on the glider.
Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
Leonardo's inventions - a parachute, hang-glider, tank, underwater diving suit and robot - are built and put to the test for the first time, 500 years after he designed them.

Abruptly, he pushes forward on the joystick again and the glider drops.
A mission involving three gliders would explore the composition and stratigraphy of the walls of Valles Marineris in ways not possible for orbiters and landers.
The hang-glider fabric would become clothing, come winter, for refugees who would be glad to have it. I Don’t Understand ?
Streamlining is important in gliders to reduce drag forces.
The third airlift was a total disaster, with bundles dropping into enemy hands and planes and gliders crash-landing throughout the area.
For the past five years, Jenkins, a mechanical engineer and amateur glider pilot, has built three crafts - on wheels, skates, and hydrofoils - equipped with rigid carbon-fiber sails.
A glider pilot who's just won the right to work as an instructor, teaching others the beauty of unpowered flying.
You lean in the direction you want to go and your weight banks the glider that way. Times, Sunday Times
As a bonus, you also have the opportunity to build two other benches, including a rocking patio glider and a gazebo bench, at a special price.
The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU). Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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I love staking the gliders into the wind and hanging the harness from the hang strap to balance it out - a dynamic stability, like flying.
Gliding is in some senses a modified form of parachuting, in which lift forces are produced by an airfoil-type membrane, so most gliders could also be considered part-time parachuters.
I think a comfortable climb rate for a paraglider from a ground tows is 500 fpm.
The vessel bucked and swerved as the upper atmosphere began to tug and grab at the smooth underside of the glider-car.
Compared to hang gliders, sailplanes are mechanically complex, land very fast, are difficult to get into tight fields, spin easy, break easy, and are next to impossible to bail out of.
We must now clear the landing zone of a US glider from the Germans. Softpedia News - Global
At this stage it was possible to do some preliminary calculations relating to the manufacture of each hang glider.
All gliders and light aircraft have to recover satisfactorily with the standard method.
In practice the gliders became much like any other aeroplanes, except that they had no engines.
A pelican is principally a glider, he notes.
He is also a qualified glider pilot. Times, Sunday Times
The glider coasted down onto the landing strip.
A careless daily inspection after rigging may easily leave the glider with one aileron or the elevator disconnected.
Their next step was to build and experiment with gliders , aircraft that fly on wind currents.
A glider is ready to take off from Argentina in a flight designed to surf mountain air currents to the edge of space. Times, Sunday Times
She flopped back down into the glider, setting it swinging wildly for a moment.
The glider was soon lost sight of in the clouds.
I think a better tug would be a fancily flapped ultralight or a very large yet lightweight hang glider trike.
The wind gently buffets you and you can feel the currents you ride, as if the glider is a part of you, as if the wings were part of you. Jackson Hole
I just kept the glider at less than 40 mph for the first six miles just to keep the needle at the best glide over the ground speed as I knew I was close to not making it.
Portability as well as being able to be flown from hang gliding flight parks using hang glider tugs has been the criteria for design.
The glider has a pressurized cabin to counteract the vacuum-like conditions of space.
There is nothing much worse than a bunch of hang glider pilots sitting around on a flyable day questioning the meaning of their lives.
The glider was in Dutch airspace.
She copped out when she was supposed to get into the hang glider
Nausicaa is set in a post-apocalyptic age, about 1000 years after the destruction of most of the natural environment; humans now live in small, oddly ruralized outposts scattered throughout the world, travelling from outpost to outpost on either large ostrich-like creatures I don't think they were actually ostriches, but that was what came to mind) or airships or gliders.) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Redeemed by such a critical choice, they'll soar like a glider, race like a Stealth, and, when overflying a barnyard or kennel, turn into a wicked-awesome dive bomber.
Unless you've a hang-glider, this means two accident-prone motorways. THE TARTAN RINGERS
I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in.
Is it possible to turn a paraglider pilot into an ATOS pilot in thirteen flights, and on their fourth solo?
At around 50,000 feet the spaceship will return to a glider-like configuration for the landing back at the spaceport.
Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites did it once again this morning, sending the rocket-propelled glider SpaceShipOne 63 miles above earth, into the nether regions of the atmosphere known as suborbital space. Plain Text: A Small Step For Private Space Travel
Nice to see the glider getting airtime.
The third airlift was a total disaster, with bundles dropping into enemy hands and planes and gliders crash-landing throughout the area.
He is also a qualified glider pilot. Times, Sunday Times
Their ‘flight park’ consists of two contains that hold the trike and their gliders.
The sugar glider is one of a number of volplaning possums in Australia.
The hangar is already filling up with tugs and gliders.
He'll have mounts available and will help you work out the perfect setup for your glider and camera.
But even these hang-gliders have to share their airspace.
Then he turned the paraglider tightly, circling until the rapidly nearing roofs of Mayrhofen began to smear like wet paint across my sight.
I had big wheels on my glider and I rolled in on nicely manicured grass.
The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU). Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
Takeoff finally began around 3: 00 P.M. with the towplanes and tethered gliders staggered on either side of the runway as far as you could see.
Slow-moving animals and those living in trees - animals such as koalas, possums, and gliders - were most at risk.
The film was taken by a camera mounted on a hang - glider.
With today's gliders you might need a drogue chute to land there.
But simulating a glider landing in a hostile environment wasn't easy.
You lean in the direction you want to go and your weight banks the glider that way. Times, Sunday Times
I wasn't very good at hang-gliding, I crashed my glider, cricked my neck.
So it might be worthwhile to revisit the process of re-entry and examine what happened a year ago as the unpowered, 100-ton glider returned to Earth from 200 miles up.
The transport could also tow Waco CG - 4A gliders and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney R - 2800 radials.
The speed of the glider is directly proportional to the speed of the wind.
The speed of the glider is directly proportional to the speed of the wind.
He is also a qualified glider pilot. Times, Sunday Times
Among the instrument trainers and gliders, Rearwin Airplanes debuted the Rearwin Cloudster in 1939; featuring strut-braced high-wings, the aircraft included an enclosed cabin and fixed, tailskid undercarriage. Aero-News Network
Another design was a multi-wing glider called the Katydid.
Like a hang-glider I dropped over the edge and down into the blue.
If the ancestor was not a glider, then its wings must have developed from another function of the arms.
The model glider looks fine, although the only way we can really put it to the test is to see if it will fly.
The point of attaching the parachute bridle to the carabineer is that then you can dangle from the hang glider as you come down under chute.
You lean in the direction you want to go and your weight banks the glider that way. Times, Sunday Times
She was clinging desperately to the hang-glider.
I continue to wonder why I can't learn to fly flex wing gliders.
You lean in the direction you want to go and your weight banks the glider that way. Times, Sunday Times
These islands are vast and if you can see a location, you can probably travel there, whether it's by boat, car, hang-glider or on foot. Archive 2009-09-01
The narrow strip of tall open forest is crucial for the conservation of the northern populations of three species of mammals that are restricted to this forest type, namely: yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis, brush-tailed bettong Bettongia penicillata (E) and swamp rat Rattus lutreolus. Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
A glider is ready to take off from Argentina in a flight designed to surf mountain air currents to the edge of space. Times, Sunday Times
When Claudette opened the back door she found him on the back porch already, sitting patiently on the glider, as though he hadn't expected to see her for a while.
Gliders and microlights have replaced wartime bombers at Rufforth Airfield, and they fly over a York very different to that which once echoed to the drone of the Halifax engines.
At Cambridge he had taken up gliding and was a keen glider for many years thereafter. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Hitchins, who had more experience flying gliders than aircraft, had not flown to Wadswick before so invited Mr Moore to come with him.
During this summer we saw a case of VG rope breaking and found a slightly damaged safety wire on that glider.
It was like a hang-glider, carried aloft by currents of warm air, coming to believe it could defy gravity forever.
Papa wanted to strap on one of those gliders and run off that hill so bad he could taste it.
Using the indigenously available material, they have put together the rudiments of a ‘glider aircraft’, similar in function and style to the imported gliders used only by defence pilots in India.
I love flying both types and will continue until someone stops me, but the fact remains that a mistake in a sailplane is much more likely to kill you than in a hang glider.
I had done it all - not only with the airlines, but I also flew and/or instructed in airplanes, seaplanes, gliders, helicopters and gyroplanes.
There is a paragliding school here, and there must have been twenty students out in the lawn yesterday practicing kiting their paragliders.
More than 100,000 men stormed ashore or landed by parachute or glider in Normandy. The Sun
The glider dips and banks, the joystick juddering in my hand.
He'd forgotten that the priest was a hang-glider pilot. Dolls
Below is a list of demo gliders we will have for pilots to fly.
Given today's gliders, getting a pilot to soar is not a problem.
Otherwise, you might see dinosaurian tree gliders or something else entirely. Convergence
You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting.
And as I was jogging along in a dream as dozing I was dawdling, arrah, methought broadtone was heard and the creepers and the gliders and flivvers of the earth breath and the dancetongues of the woodfires and the hummers in their ground all vociferated echoating: Shaun! Finnegans Wake
The control frame on a rigid wing is just unconnected from the glider and you feel that unconnectedness (well, I do).
They had not intended to fly the two-seater plane, which experts say resembles a heavy-duty hang-glider with an engine.
There were also a number of other accidents resulting lesser injuries or damage to gliders.
Non motorized trikes will be made for use under the hang glider wings.
The Attack Falcon is a joy to fly, but, of course, you want to stay in the lift, as the glide is not much better than you will find on the highest performance paragliders.
As she reaches a point where the slope steepens slightly, she is airborne, joining the dozen parapentes and hang gliders that are already visible circling above the town.
Like more familiar gliders, such as flying squirrels, flying snakes are not actually able to fly upward.
Flying just above ground level, the hook snagged the glider towline, pulling the glider from a standstill to 720 mph within seven seconds.
On landing the 7th Battalion of 5th Brigade begins a forced march towards Pegasus Bridge, to reinforce the glider force.
Modern gliders usually have spring-loaded caps which are pulled down firmly to prevent air leaking into or out of the wing.
The question is, once it was airborne, was it just a glider, a weakly flapping flyer, or a strong flyer?
I remember a report from France, in the eighties, where near the launch of St. Hilaire du Touvet (today a site overpopulated by paragliders) a hang glider got hit by a sailplane passing under him.
He was directed towards a glider landing strip, but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland.
Competition flex wing hang gliders would be hard to turn if they didn't have a good amount of anhedral, as they don't have enough sail billow to allow weight shifting to change to shape of the sail quickly and easily.
Calling ore carriers tankers is like calling a hang glider a jumbo jet, on the basis that both are flying machines. Times, Sunday Times
An instrument known as a variometer helps to show the pilot when the glider is in a thermal, and the pilot circles within it and gains altitude.
The pair fell off the edge of the Aiguille du Midi, near Chamonix, Switzerland, as they tried to take off in a double-harnessed parapente, a large parachute like a hang-glider.
I have flown for over forty years with over 6000 hours of flying time - most of it in sailplanes, hang gliders, and tow planes.
While most gliders are towed, then released, by a powered aircraft, some gliders are equipped with engine power to reach their target altitude.
When the wind is blowing off the river, kite-fliers weave their crafts in and out of the air pockets above, and the para-gliders and windsurfers do the same upon the ruffled waters.
The man's hang-glider had apparently got out of control.
There's also another piece of equipment called a glider out there. CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2002
On 20 May 1941, German parachutists and assault gliders descended upon Crete.
Well look out onto the lakes, see jet-boats whizzing around; look up at the mountains, see parapenters jumping off everywhere, hang-gliders jumping off.
The tandem paraglider duo went down after a few miles.
After the chute was inflated the glider rotated a few times and righted itself.
As we towed a glider, the nylon rope broke and whiplashed into our plane, damaging the rudder.
Gliders are left rigged ready for re-use in the hangar
A pilot fell out of his glider during a loop-the-loop because he'd forgotten to fasten his seatbelt.
A hang glider has an aluminium frame which supports the sailcloth and uses internal battens in the wing to define the aerofoil shape.
The man with no hang glider or mini sub in his garage. Times, Sunday Times
I found the U2 to be light in roll and very responsive, without that twitchy feeling that sometimes comes from gliders with too much anhedral.
The idea is to create a network of volunteers who would be willing to donate, or loan, their old, but still flyable, gliders and gear to instructors.
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Mr. Rogallo's invention, now called the paraglider, was seen as a way to bring space capsules back to earth with more precision than a traditional parachute allows. Post-gazette.com - News
As I emerged from the forest, all I could hear in the stillness was the constant squelch of my tyres churning through mud and the lazy hum of a plane which I assumed had just set free from one of the gliders that fly off Sutton Bank.
The Red Arrows' display had already been halted by an aircraft, a microlight and a glider, but it was the aircraft flown by Bingham which caused the Red Arrows to abandon the display completely.
I became rated in gyroplanes, helicopters, seaplanes and gliders.
Prior to this time, he had been concerned with gliders and fixed-wing aircraft and, in 1918, designed a tri-motor bomber for the Spanish Air Force.
Sitting on top of Mam Tor after a dusty, sweaty drive through the dales, watching hang-gliders and paragliders swirl beneath us, feeling fresh wind on the back of our necks
A gang of eight friends that included fellow all-star Rush Randle, the Strapt boys blew minds by launching 30-foot jumps on sailboards, then mating the boards to paragliders to experiment with some of the earliest kiteboards.
Hours later, we again took to the air, this time towing gliders full of troops to reinforce the men we just dropped.
Using gliders, helicopters, remote-controlled models, micro-light aircraft and balloons the filmmakers were able to get the stunning footage.
Attached to a single center of gravity by a harness made of strong webbing, hang gliders fly with bodies vertical.
Probably this book will begin circulating firstly among hang-gliders only, but should probably expand from there and reach the aviation oriented public as well.
The base glider is a solid package, but if you like carbon, there are numerous options to choose from - outboard leading edges, dive struts, and carbon battens.
I wasn't very good at hang-gliding, I crashed my glider, cricked my neck.
Don't fear those bumps in the night - they're the sound of Marenghi's spine-tingler soaring, then crashing to earth like a hang-glider that has collided with a crow.
Developed from parachuting canopies, modern paragliders have replaced hang-gliding as the most popular aerial activity because of a relatively-simple control mechanism.
I am busy now trying to get my Sport Pilot Examiner appointment, which could benefit tug pilots and hang-gliders as well.
Reprogrammed to deal with the unexpectedly strong current, the first seaglider also made its way from the whale breathing hole to the polynya region. Research robots roam the Ross Sea
And there was the ultralight, a flimsy little tricycle fitted with a hang-glider's wings and a motor hooked up with a propeller.
True flyers can thus move horizontally or even ascend at a steady speed, unlike gliders and parachuters (unless a strong wind carries one up).
A longtime hang gliding aficionado, the Asotin-based flight instructor had flown just about every parasail, trike, plane and glider in every kind of setting.
In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off.
In January 2009, a wave glider completed a nine-day circumnavigation of Hawaii's Big Island. Where Data Depend on Catching a Wave
Fortunately, the discussion of ballast, glider, and pilot weight, including wing span, has happened before.
Some have gliders which slot into grooves on the back of the track.
It was a science fiction game, where you could play humans or insectoid aliens or blobs or glider monkeys and shoot each other with lasers or needler weapons or gyrojet guns … I had never seen a role-playing game before (well, maybe the D&D playing scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and it blew my mind. My RPG DNA, Part 1: The Texas Years « Geek Related
Either he carries more ballast, or his glider/harness has less drag than the ATOS C with me or Johann on it.
Heading for Utah Beach, Jack, aboard water barge LBW in the 34th Flotilla, heard the buzz of low flying Dakotas as they droned in from the sea towing their camouflaged gliders.
Her eyes settled on a glider on the other side of the porch.
The tow aircraft and glider then crossed into the second area, where the pilot of the tug rocked his wings to signal the pilot of the glider to release the towline.
With no beams or bars to disrupt the view, as there would be in a normal cabriolet or roadster, it's a bit like sitting in the cockpit of a glider.
The pilot of the other glider landed safely. Times, Sunday Times
I will be clipped into the hang glider with my right hand on his left shoulder.
The flying displays began with model aircraft demonstrations followed by gliders and civilian and warbird aircraft, including a Cathay Pacific A330 and Winjeel trainer.
At the very least try tandem hang gliding, which is when an experienced pilot flies the glider with you. Thea Joselow: "Why Read an Author Who Hasn't Lived?" An Interview With Joe Quirk
The manufactures and certification bodies cannot be blamed for failures that occur outside the placarded limits of our gliders!
I often wondered why glider manufacturers didn't try to emulate the Mountain or Alpine Chough's planform.
The pilot controls the glider with a stick.
It's great to see trike pilots and hang glider pilots working so closely together.
It seems like smaller gliders would be preferable and then I wouldn't have to carry the ballast.
This new sport-pilot license privileges will extend over a variety of aircraft, including gliders, power parachutes, gyroplanes, weight-shift-control, airships and balloons.
In the first section the tow aircraft pulled the glider to the required altitude.
Note how this time the glider has a very pronounced inner wing-drop at the stall and tries to spin.
I'd call Cygnus hang-glider. :p The last page, I guess it is Orion but something doesn't make sense about it. Kid's Astronomy: Celestial Birds Migrate West? | Universe Today
Therefore, the bird glider is obviously a miniature model of the airplanes the Egyptians were flying during the Old Kingdom. Their logic is infallible!
Today, the club consists mainly of paragliders, as the available landing zone continues to shrink.
These competing organizations provided for the self regulation of ultralight pilots in much the same way that the USHGA is the body that governs self regulation for hang glider and paragliders.
Gary's inability to use his legs means he's had to modify the gliders so he can fly them.
Sport aircraft in the weight-shift control category are motorized hang gliders that are commonly referred to as trikes.
Move on now to consider gliders and parachuters.
Ahead of me in the distance I saw the paraglider again, but now as I watched he slowly settled on the beach and the wing fluttered to the ground. Live and Let Love
He wanted to break a glider record and he wanted to do that in Argentina -- Wolf. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007
As we towed a glider, the nylon rope broke and whiplashed into our plane, damaging the rudder.
Serious hang gliders and paragliders can expect to train for up to two years before becoming a pilot.
He flies on a jet-powered glider. The Sun
As a result, most of the new breed of gliders are more pleasant and safer to fly.
I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot. Sir Paul Nurse - Autobiography
With no ballast this glider is a handful even in Florida air.
MKS will provide the glider exclusive distributor with the most competitive products and the most favorable prices. Therefore, the profit of the exclusive distributor is the highest.
Others have all-in-one hook gliders which clip on to the face of the track and eliminate the use of separate curtain hooks.
It was a science fiction game, where you could play humans or insectoid aliens or blobs or glider monkeys and shoot each other with lasers or needler weapons or gyrojet guns … I had never seen a role-playing game before (well, maybe the D&D playing scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and it blew my mind. My RPG DNA, Part 1: The Texas Years « Geek Related
If the deployment bag falls down at the same speed of the broken glider the weight of the swivel would counterbalance (at least partially) the drag on bridle and lines.
Some gliders have far more anhedral than the Blade and the other gliders I tested and so the negative coupling effect would likely be even more pronounced on these wings.
Each person goes on to fulfil a lifelong dream - from scoring a goal in front of thousands of fans to flying a glider. Times, Sunday Times

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