sometimes able to soar dynamically in meteorological wind shears at higher altitudes. Dynamic soaring is sometimes confused with slope soaring which is a technique...

by soaring aircraft and soaring birds. The most common human application of lift is in sport and recreation. The three air sports that use soaring flight...

transportation facilities. Wind gradient soaring, also called dynamic soaring, is a technique used by soaring birds including albatrosses. If the wind...

species. Albatrosses are highly efficient in the air, using dynamic soaring and slope soaring to cover great distances with little exertion. They feed on...

propelled space-vehicles, avoiding the limitations of the Rocket equation. Dynamic soaring as a way to travel across interstellar space has been proposed. Uploaded...

Look up soar or soaring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Soaring may refer to: Gliding, in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or...

flying instructor for gliding. Renner is reported to have utilized the dynamic soaring technique with a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle at Tocumwal in 1974 and later...

the sport of soaring started in Germany after the First World War. In 1921, Dr. Wolfgang Klemperer broke the Wright Brothers’ 1911 soaring duration record...

for more information on the lift mechanism of "frontside" flying. Dynamic soaring, utilizing the leeward or "backside" of a hill, has recently become...

used by kestrels, terns and nightjars) or in soaring and gliding flight, particularly the dynamic soaring used by seabirds, which takes advantage of wind...

can also be used to create an updraft. This type of soaring differs from other types of slope soaring in that the orographic lift (or "hill") is following...

speeds (The glide ratio is not increased). Soaring animals and aircraft may alternate glides with periods of soaring in rising air. Five principal types of...

still require the use of some new, advanced method of propulsion. Dynamic soaring as a way to travel across interstellar space has been proposed as well...

The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of...

turbines. The fastest aircraft, dynamic slope soarers, can reach speeds of over 450 mph (720 km/h) by dynamic soaring, repeatedly circling through the...

Flying". Soaring Society of America. Archived from the original on 2010-05-15. Retrieved 2010-05-06. "Soaring Competitions" (PDF). Soaring Society of...

canopy inversion.[citation needed] Soaring related to wind shear, also called dynamic soaring, is a technique used by soaring birds like albatrosses, who can...

powered bird flight, there is evidence that bony-toothed birds used dynamic soaring flight almost exclusively: the proximal end of the humerus had an elongated...

famous. They can fly for hours without stalling and they do this by dynamic soaring. The wind speed near the surface of the sea is much lower than about...

the mecca for a style of radio-controlled aircraft flying called "dynamic soaring" and where at one time the world speed record of 302 mph (486 km/h)...

rising air currents ("thermals"), referred to as soaring flight. For specialist soaring birds (obligate soarers), the decision to engage in flight are strongly...

dependent on a type of gliding called dynamic soaring (where the wind deflected by waves provides lift) as well as slope soaring. Seabirds also almost always have...

procellariids use two techniques to do this, namely, dynamic soaring and slope soaring. Dynamic soaring involves gliding across wave fronts, thus taking advantage...

used: thermals, ridge lift, lee waves, convergences and dynamic soaring. Examples of soaring flight by birds are the use of: Thermals and convergences...

death of James Clerk Maxwell) from 1879 to 1884. He first described dynamic soaring by seabirds in 1883, in the British journal Nature. From 1887 to 1905...

stretches of time at sea fishing, and use a flight pattern called "dynamic soaring" which exploits the vertical gradient of wind speed near the ocean...

a flap-gliding technique, which is more energy consuming than the dynamic-soaring favoured by albatrosses. As all Sulids, they are fish-eating birds...

known as Soarin' Over California, Soarin' Around the World, Soaring Over the Horizon and Soaring: Fantastic Flight, is a flight motion simulator attraction...

on aerodynamic and slope soaring techniques to achieve their extremely long migration patterns. In contrast, thermal soaring birds, such as Rüppell's...

Oceanitidae storm petrels, however. Northern storm petrels also use dynamic soaring, gliding across wave fronts gaining energy from the vertical wind gradient...