Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by soaring aircraft and soaring birds. The most common human application of lift is in sport...

"sloping". Orville Wright used ridge lift, setting a duration record of 11 minutes in 1911. However the sport of soaring started in Germany after the First...

fluid Lift coefficient, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to other parameters Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds...

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...

lifting force generated by the wings Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and gliders Dynamic soaring, a flying technique used to gain energy...

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

allows the animal to produce lift and thrust. The animal may ascend without the aid of rising air. Ballooning and soaring are not powered by muscle, but...

Soaring animals and aircraft may alternate glides with periods of soaring in rising air. Five principal types of lift are used: thermals, ridge lift,...

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

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

Controllable-slope soaring (also known as Walkalong gliding) is a type of slope soaring where a slope is made to follow a walkalong glider (a lightweight...

Braunschweig Tube". Soaring. 39 (1). Soaring Society of America: 37–38. Brandes, Tom (1975). "The Netto System". Soaring. 39 (3). Soaring Society of America:...

headwinds/tailwinds and insects on the leading edges of the wings. Soaring flight computers running specialized soaring software, have been designed for use in gliders....

In aerodynamics, the lift-to-drag ratio (or L/D ratio) is the lift generated by an aerodynamic body such as an aerofoil or aircraft, divided by the aerodynamic...

A super heavy-lift launch vehicle is a rocket that can lift to low Earth orbit a "super heavy payload", which is defined as more than 50 metric tons (110...

gliders can soar and climb in the rising air by flying within the lift band parallel to the ridge. Ridge soaring is also known as slope soaring. Mountain...

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

deploys Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon HALE drones at Shigatse Airport in Tibet near the border with India". 2022-12-15. "China's WZ-7 Soaring Dragon 'Caught Snooping'...

Speed to fly is a principle used by soaring pilots when flying between sources of lift, usually thermals, ridge lift and wave. The aim is to maximize the...

downward thrusts of the wings to generate upward lift. Sometimes hovering is maintained by flapping or soaring into a headwind; this form of hovering is called...

rendition. Lyndsey Havens of Billboard called the performance "soaring" and wrote, "'Lift Me Up' came to life as Rih sang with palpable passion to honor...

heatshield of the DynaSoar. BOR-4 BOR-5 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 North American X-15 Silbervogel Goebel, Greg. "The X-15, Dyna-Soar, & The Lifting Bodies – [1.2]...

point he sees parachutes as unpowered and as a primitive form of soaring, while soaring itself he sees as being powered by air movement (wind). Other methods...

Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares CvIH ComM (born 31 August 1991), known simply as Cédric (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛðɾik]), is a Portuguese professional...

Force Gliding & Soaring Association SSA Soaring Society of America SSF Soaring Safety Foundation - Training and safety arm of the Soaring Society of America...

enthusiasts also use lift generated by the wind blowing up the hill to fly their unpowered aircraft – a technique known as slope soaring. The hill is an ancient...

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

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

space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated with gliding or propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy...

From the French héritier legitime (rightful heir). levavi oculos I will lift my eyes Motto of Hollins University and Keswick School, derived from Psalm...