Sentences with phrase «like airplane wings»

They believe the material can be scaled - up to large surface areas like airplane wings and wind turbine blades and also heat coils and car windshields.

Fearful kitties hold ears sideways like airplane wings.

How to Do It Stand tall with feet about 4 feet apart, toes turned out, and arms extended like airplane wings.

Make it easier: If balancing on one leg is a challenge, reach out your arms to each side like airplane wings to help you maintain your balance.

A team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) has developed a new way to prevent ice buildup on surfaces like airplane wings, finding inspiration in an unusual source: the poison dart frog.

Already, the bridge's novel design, with a deck shaped like an airplane wing, is being used as a template for future bridges across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Strait.

However, if the speed increases beyond a threshold, the object will suddenly experience a large upward positive lift, like an airplane wing, as Patrick Bot of the Naval Academy Research Institute in Brest, France, and Marc Rabaud of the University of Paris - South and colleagues report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

(Uh, not me — not in a car named after a desert wind but designed to act like an airplane wing.)

The biggest brainwave designers had was to cant the dash toward the passenger, creating what looks like an airplane wing from above.

The paper is mounted atop honeycomb aluminium, like an airplane wing, and then they have to be framed.

Not exact matches

Dawkins is like the little boy who thought he could make an airplane by adding something that looks like a pair of wings to something that looks like a fuselage.

When assembling the airplane, one larger wing and one smaller wing will be rotated and attached behind the airplane so it looks like it is on the other side.

I like the look of 4 wings on the airplane.

Fixed - wing (airplane - style) drones like the Predator can carry much more weight for their size than rotary - wing (helicopter - style) drones, but can't hover to get a good close - up look at objects of interest, nor could they easily hand off a taco, and they need a runwaylike surface to land.

Sensors can be placed in a part of a structure that doesn't have easy access, like the inside of an airplane wing, or even embedded in concrete.

But like an airplane, the Dynalifter has wings with propellers that provide about half its lift.

A system like theirs could someday be part of self - healing airplane wings or spaceship components that include composite materials made of multiple constituents.

Combining the classic but usually disparate physics of airplane wings and golf balls, the surprising reversal might serve to make a new type of mechanical switch that would flip off or on depending on how fast fluid flows past it or perhaps to stabilize machines like underwater gliders.

«During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing - borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.

«For example, this approach excels in figuring out which material or interface property might be limiting performance, even for complex stacks of materials like batteries, thermoelectric devices, or composites used in tennis shoes or airplane wings.»

A smooth ball with backspin creates lift by warping the airflow such that the ball acts like an airplane's wing.

In that concept, a spherical shell of metamaterial — specially shaped metal pieces that bend light in ways other materials can not — would cause light to skirt the inner edge of the shell like wind around an airplane wing, making anything inside the shell invisible.

«Perhaps these big V formation birds can be thought of quite like an airplane with wings that go up and down.»

If your shoulder blades look like wings on an airplane, press into your palms and work to lift the rib cage up away from the floor.

Try stretching the arms out to the sides, like the wings of an airplane, or reaching them back, palms facing up, along the sides of your torso.

This one looks something like a miniature airplane without wings and a tail. . .

Now this irrelevant dramatizing is all in good fun, so don't go thinking that LSUC's Treasurer, who has put her name to the Discussion Paper by way of an opening letter urging participation in the discussions, has spun back the odometer on us like an old - time used car salesman (a now reformed «salesperson»), telling us that a used car with wings is just as good as a late model airplane.