horizontal flight in a sentence
Examples
- Using the mountain face as a " vertical runway ", members have been able to achieve unpowered horizontal flight at speeds of.
- Testing began in July 1960 and by the end of the year the aircraft had achieved both vertical take-off and horizontal flight.
- The aircraft's radical design enables it to take off and land vertically and to tilt its rotors forward for fast horizontal flight.
- The pilot's seat was mounted on gimbals allowing for movement from 45 degrees in vertical flight to 90 degrees in horizontal flight.
- The basic idea in this arrangement was to keep the centerline of the fuselage horizontal in both normal and inverted horizontal flight.
- On 19 November 1998, a NASA ER-2 research aircraft set a world record for altitude of in horizontal flight in the weight class.
- The Dassault Mirage IIIV achieved transition from vertical to horizontal flight in March 1966, reaching Mach 1.3 in level flight a short time later.
- As of 2014, NASA is testing a diesel-electric hybrid 10-foot 10-rotor tiltwing called the GL-10 Greased Lightning, with most propellers folding during horizontal flight.
- On 24 March 1966, the first complete flight was made from vertical takeoff transition to horizontal flight deceleration to vertical flight and vertical landing.
- Powered types capable of horizontal flight were referred to as dirigible balloons or simply dirigibles ( from the French " dirigible " meaning steerable ).