Sentences with phrase «glider pilot»

A glider pilot is someone who flies a type of aircraft called a glider, which does not have an engine. Instead, it relies on natural forces, like wind currents, to stay in the air. These pilots control the glider and navigate it using their skills and knowledge in order to fly long distances or perform aerobatic maneuvers. Full definition
I also didn't realize that Anne was a pilot in her own right, and was the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S. I also wasn't aware of the problems in their marriage, and Charles's anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathies.
In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements - she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States - Anne is viewed merely as the aviator's wife.
When he isn't working at Bendix as a designer, Robert B. Count (left, at 2,000 feet in a 1 - 26 sailplane) is an imperturbable glider pilot.
A short fictional story of a member of Britain's Glider Pilot Regiment.
Bowlus was an expert at soaring flight and at building gliders, established numerous records, trained many of America's earliest glider pilots, and gave gliding lessons to both Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
In the right conditions hang glider pilots can fly sometimes over 500 km by simply using air currents and thermals.
A man of seemingly limitless energy, Davie was an enthusiastic glider pilot and had a passion for driving E-type Jaguars.
The catalogue briefly mentions Lanyon's friend and fellow glider pilot Alan Davie, but there is no room for William Turnbull, Albert Irvin, Kenneth Noland or Sam Francis, all of whom were in the British or US air - forces during the second world war.
Lots of glider pilots on this forum, I have noticed.
However they do it, he says, «birds are awfully good hang - glider pilots
Once you reach a certain altitude, the glider pilot releases the towline and you ease back to terra firma.
Courtauld Gallery, London Peter Lanyon's shimmering skyscapes inspired by his experience as a glider pilot are the revelation of the year
But in 1941 Noland was called up for war service as a glider pilot and cipher operator.
During World War II, Noland was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served in the Air Corps as a glider pilot and cryptographer.
I compliment Tucker for striving to uncover every possible alternative influence to Noland's bull's - eye confections: the military insignias Noland observed as a glider pilot training for combat in World War II; Sputnik and the space race and the threat of nuclear war; the circular shapes found in the work of Robert Delaunay, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Arthur Dove; the branding of Tide detergent; and the logo of Black Mountain College.
He was drafted into the Army in 1942 and served in the Air Corps as a glider pilot and cryptographer.
It is the first exhibition to concentrate on the paintings Lanyon made in response to his experiences as a glider pilot.
The point is, in a glider pilot's world, the evaporation frequently leads to condensation within a few miles laterally and within a mile or even less vertically.
As a glider pilot we always avoided irrigation areas because there were less thermals there in the daytime becuase of the cooling effect.
Any glider pilot anticipates «overdevelopment» (convective cloud generating rain showers) first and worst (because it puts us on the ground tout suite) over areas that experienced showers last night, or in this case and as was mentioned in a previous post areas that experienced irrigation recently.
Bernie says: September 8, 2010 at 6:03 pm As a glider pilot we always avoided irrigation areas because there were less thermals there in the daytime becuase of the cooling effect.
The roles and responsibilities of the glider pilot include providing training to the new joined pilots, give demonstration about the flying and instruct the pilot about the rules and regulations of flying.
She has her glider pilot's license.»
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