Sentences with phrase «wings during flight»

The character design centres around a mechanical bird who starts out and finishes every level in a cage that flaps its wings during flight when being directed from one steam generator to another during the traversal.

Whether it's monitoring the integrity of buildings during earthquakes or airplane wings during flight, so - called strain sensors are getting more and more important for our safety.

Not exact matches

Zipline's rugged, fixed - wing drones have already made over 1,400 flights and delivered 2,600 units of blood, even during bad weather conditions involving heavy rain or wind in Rwanda.

A Delta Air Lines flight landing at La Guardia Airport skidded off the runway, crashed over a berm and through a fence during a snowstorm this morning, forcing passengers to evacuate by climbing out onto a broken wing.

During flight, these hooks allow the two wings to function as one.

Instead of slats and flaps, wings could be covered with sensors and small moving plates, allowing them to change shape during flight and counteract turbulence.

The team compared the thickness of the bones» walls and their resistance to torsion — a twisting force that birds» wings withstand during flapping flight — with similar bones from several dinosaurs, flying reptiles called pterosaurs and modern birds.

During the past year and a half, Scaled Composites has completed successful test flights involving both the mother - ship drop and SS2's use of what its creator, Burt Rutan, soothingly calls «feathering,» an ingenious wing - raising aerodynamic maneuver that softens its potentially violent reentry into the atmosphere.

Smaller splats also increase the probability that the contaminants will come off during flight and keep the wing surface clean.

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

During a 3 - month - long, first - of - its - kind field study at a breeding colony in the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, researchers taped tiny, 100 - gram GPS receivers between the wings of nesting birds, gathering 36 days» worth of flight data from 16 different birds.

The simulator can model the way wings of varying shapes and surface features beat, as well as how they change their shape during flight.

Bats» thin, flexible wings — a thumb and four fingers connected by webbing — stretch and reshape during flight, unlike those of birds and insects.

Bat wings have more than 40 joints for adjusting their shape during flight.

The fossils even have a small projection on the front edge of their wings — known to boost maneuverability during flight — that is remarkably similar to that of today's birds.

A new study of ibises finds that these big - winged birds carefully position their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird's updraft — and save energy during flight.

During this flight, the male opens his wing bags and fans his smell to her.

A new study of ibises finds that these big - winged birds carefully position their wing tips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird's updraft — and save energy during flight... read more

The Elektra one is built of carbon fiber, and includes solar cells on its wing surface that help charge the electric engines during flight.