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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Glide flight

Hello everyone,
I would like to get an explaination concerning thhe terms:
1. glide flight
2.powered flight

the sentence is:
After three glide flights in his Bell X-1 rocket research aircraft, he had flown it to a speed of MAch 0.85 on his powered flight on 29th August 1947.
  

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" A powered flight is a flight on an aircraft that is powered by an engine. A powered aircraft does not glide through the air, but instead is able to propel itself through the air because of its engine. The action of gliding implies that whatever the thing is that is doing the gliding does not have a power source propelling it onward.

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  • " A powered flight is a flight on an aircraft that is powered by an engine.
  • A powered aircraft does not glide through the air, but instead is able to propel itself through the air because of its engine.
  • The action of gliding implies that whatever the thing is that is doing the gliding does not have a power source propelling it onward.
  • 85 on his powered flight on 29th August 1947," it is fairly confusing, at least at first.
  • Nevertheless, I think I understand what it is trying to say.
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A glide flight is a flight through the air on a special type of aircraft called a "glider." A glider pilot takes advantage of air currents to literally glide through the air, hence the name "glider."

A powered flight is a flight on an aircraft that is powered by an engine. A powered aircraft does not glide through the air, but instead is able to propel itself through the
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