glide angle

However the best glide angle is the line with the least slope.

They'd have to get the glide angle they wanted without thermals in any case.

With these wings she has the gliding angle of a kitchen sink."

All the other lines from the origin to the various data points would be steeper than the line of the best glide angle.

Without thrust the suborbitals had the gliding angle of a lead brick.

The Flettner rotor has a glide angle of 44 degrees.

He took the risk of dropping the nose slightly, to increase the glide angle and the airspeed.

He struggled to slow the craft, to bring the nose up, trading speed for range and glide angle.

Les, flatten the glide angle and give us the bow eye on the main screen."

The objective is to increase the gliding speed, while maintaining the same gliding angle.

"Jolly good gliding angle," says someone; and another, "Beautifully quick controls, what?"

Kalenda struggled to flatten out her glide angle and braced herself for impact.

Cammell described the aircraft as dangerously unstable and having too steep a glide angle.

It had "the gliding angle of a brick" without engine power, and the engines were notoriously unreliable.

This makes it difficult to achieve an optimum gliding angle without the parafoil deflating.

If Frank had judged his glide angle correctly, the wires should be dropping below his field of vision.

We've got a very poor glide angle, I'm afraid, but the updrafts are so strong we're gaining altitude in spite of our inefficiency.

They had no gliding angle.

Although heavier gliders have a slight disadvantage when climbing in rising air, they achieve a higher speed at any given glide angle.

The pilots lost much of their control, but were able to land the aircraft safely using differential throttling to control glide angle.

--All aeroplanes are, or should be, designed to assume their gliding angle when the power and thrust is cut off.

Blade compensated by making the glider considerably larger, to get a satisfactory glide angle with his two hundred and ten pounds aboard.

There was no flare-out - the low approach speed and shallow glide angle meant that the aircraft could be allowed to fly straight onto the ground.

Consequently, the line for the best glide angle will only just graze the polar curve, i.e. it is a tangent.

Higher wing loadings provide higher speeds and better glide angles between thermals but poor climbing in weak lift.