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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

The Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon (Chinese: 无侦-7 翔龙; pinyin: Wú zhēn-qī Xiáng Lóng) is a high-altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from...

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]...

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...

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or nearby. Thermals are one of the many sources of lift used by soaring birds and gliders to soar. Thermals are also seen elsewhere in the solar system...

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...

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...

500m 550yds Frog Island River Soar Soar Navigation ABBEY PARK site of lifting bridge    Frog Island is an inner city area of Leicester, England, so named...

Jackson Hole News and Guide, Aug 18, 2021 Foster, Clark. "New Teton lift soars", Jackson Hole News and Guide, Dec 23, 2015. Seymour, Eric. "Jackson Hole...

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...

throw. Thermal soaring is often combined with slope soaring. Thermals from elsewhere can drift in over the hill to combine with the hill lift or they can...

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