Look up: gliding

1. gliding
   ratio of the horizontal distance an aircraft travels while gliding,for every unit of vertical distance it descends Category: Transport • the angle between the flight path in a glide and the horizontal Category: Mathematics • maximum distance a heavier-than-air aircraft can glide without power Category: Transport
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2. gliding
   sailplaning noun the activity of flying a glider
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3. Gliding
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glide
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4. gliding
   (from the article `bird`) The types of flight found in birds vary considerably, and different types of wings correlate with different types of flight. At least two major types ... Experts continue to debate whether flight evolved through gliding by an arboreal ancestral bird or through aerial launching by a running terrestrial ... [2...
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5. gliding
   flight in an unpowered heavier-than-air craft. Any engineless aircraft, from the simplest hang glider to a space shuttle on its return flight to the ... [1 related articles]
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6. gliding
   
   • move smoothly and effortlessly
   • cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
   
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7. gliding
   The art of using air currents to fly unpowered aircraft. Technically, gliding involves the gradual loss of altitude; gliders designed for soaring flight (utilizing air rising up a cliff face or hill, warm air rising as a thermal above sun-heated ground, and so on) are known as sailplanes. Soa...
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8. Gliding
   `Gliding` is a recreational activity and competitive air sport --> in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.<ref name=ssa> --> Gli...
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