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Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport [1] in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.
Glided for about 20 km (12 mi) before crash landing 500 metres (1,600 ft) short of runway. 0: 150 27 February 2001 Loganair Flight 670A: Shorts 360-100 Firth of Forth, Scotland: Dual engine failure from accumulation of large volumes of snow or slush in both engines Ditched in the Firth of Forth c. 100 metres from shoreline near Granton Harbour. 2 2
Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001.
Experimental aircraft such as the North American X-15, which glided back having used their fuel; Spacecraft such as the Space Shuttles, SpaceShipOne and the Russian Buran; Aircraft which are not designed for glide may forced to perform gliding flight in an emergency, such as all engine failure or fuel exhaustion.
Gilded frame ready for burnishing with an agate stone tool Application of gold leaf to a reproduction of a 15th-century panel painting. Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. [1]
Silver-gilt or gilded/gilt silver, sometimes known in American English by the French term vermeil, is silver (either pure or sterling) which has been gilded.Most large objects made in goldsmithing that appear to be gold are actually silver-gilt; for example, most sporting trophies (including medals such as the gold medals awarded in all Olympic Games after 1912) [1] and many crown jewels are ...
A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines.Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly sized jet aircraft, but typically for at most a few minutes of powered operation, followed by a gliding flight.
French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard, Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.