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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

(following 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...