Soaring Inflation
Soaring may refer to: * Gliding, in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes * Lift (soaring), a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by some aircraft and birds * ''Soaring'' (magazine), a magazine produced by the Soaring Society of America * ''SOARING'', a public artwork at Alverno College * List of soaring birds * ''Soarin''', a ride in Walt Disney parks * ''Soaring'' (album) a 1973 Big Band jazz album by Don Ellis See also *Bird flight *Flying and gliding animals *Dynamic soaring * Ridge soaring * Controllable slope soaring * Orographic lift * Thermals * Lee waves In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal gravity waves. These were discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, above ...

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. Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s. Initially the objective was to increase the duration of flights but soon pilots attempted cross-country flights away from the place of launch. Improvements in aerodynamics and in the understanding of weather phenomena have allowed greater distances at higher average speeds. Long distances are now flown using any of the main sources of rising air: ridge lift, thermals and lee waves. When conditions are favourable, experienced pilots can now fly hundreds of kilometres before returning to their home airfields; occasionally flights of more than are achieved. Some competitive pilots fly in races around pre-defined courses. These gliding competitions test pilots' abilities to mak ...
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Lift (soaring)
Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source 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 are: gliding, hang gliding and paragliding. Energy can be gained by using rising air from four sources: * Thermals (where air rises due to heat), * Ridge lift, where air is forced upwards by a slope, * Wave lift, where a mountain produces a standing wave, * Convergence, where two air masses meet In dynamic soaring it is also possible to gain energy, though this uses differences in wind speeds rather than rising air. Thermals Thermals are columns of rising air that are formed on the ground through the warming of the surface by sunlight. If the air contains enough moisture, the water will condense from the rising air and form cumulus clouds. Thermal lift is often used by birds, such as raptors, vultures and storks. Although thermal lift was known to the Wright Brot ...
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Soaring (magazine)
''SOARING'' is a magazine published monthly as a membership benefit of the Soaring Society of America. It was first published in 1937. The headquarters is in Hobbs, New Mexico Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census, increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of L .... The magazine's article topics include safety issues and accounts of individual gliding accomplishments. References Monthly magazines published in the United States Sports magazines published in the United States Aviation magazines English-language magazines Gliding in the United States Magazines established in 1937 Magazines published in New Mexico Internal Link
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SOARING
Soaring may refer to: * Gliding, in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes * Lift (soaring), a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by some aircraft and birds * ''Soaring'' (magazine), a magazine produced by the Soaring Society of America * '' SOARING'', a public artwork at Alverno College * List of soaring birds * ''Soarin''', a ride in Walt Disney parks * ''Soaring'' (album) a 1973 Big Band jazz album by Don Ellis See also *Bird flight *Flying and gliding animals *Dynamic soaring * Ridge soaring * Controllable slope soaring * Orographic lift * Thermals * Lee waves In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal gravity waves. These were discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, above ...

List Of Soaring Birds
This is a list of soaring birds, which are birds that can maintain flight without wing flapping, using rising air currents. Many gliding birds are able to "lock" their extended wings by means of a specialized tendon. ;Bird of prey * Buzzards * Condors * Eagles * Falcons * Harriers * Hawks * Kites * Osprey * Secretary bird * Vultures ;Passerine * Choughs *Raven * Woodswallows ;Cranes *Sandhill ;Herons ;Storks ; Sea birds * Albatrosses * Frigatebirds * Gulls * Pelicans * Petrels * Shearwaters * Terns ;Extinct * Argentavis See also *Flying and gliding animals *Shearwaters which use a similar technique References''Soaring''at Stanford Birds hosted by Stanford University and based on ''The Birder's Handbook'' by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye''MTB Naturalist - our East Bay Soaring Birds''by Duncan Parks''Birds, Thermals & Soaring Flight''at aerospaceweb.org by Jeff Scott, 4 December 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Soaring birds Lists of birds Birds ...
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Soarin'
''Soarin, also known as ''Soarin' Around the World'', ''Soaring Over the Horizon'' and ''Soaring: Fantastic Flight'', is a flight motion simulator attraction at Disney California Adventure, Epcot, Shanghai Disneyland, and Tokyo DisneySea. It employs a mechanical lift system, a projected presentation on an concave 180-degree dome screen, and artificial scents and wind to simulate a hang gliding flight over locations in six of the world's continents. Many consider it the first flying theater. The attraction's first iteration, ''Soarin Over California'', was an opening-day attraction at Disney California Adventure on February 8, 2001. It took guests over several locations in California and included a pre-show on the history of California's aviation industry. It was also installed at Epcot in Walt Disney World as ''Soarin'' in 2005. The current global version of the ride debuted at Shanghai Disneyland Park as ''Soaring Over the Horizon'' on June 16, 2016. The American versions ...
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Soaring (album)
''Soaring'' is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1973 and released on the MPS label. The album features Hank Levy's composition which provided the title for, and was featured in, the 2014 film ''Whiplash''. Reception Scott Yanow of Allmusic called it an "underrated set ...well worth searching for". On Jazz History Online, Michael Verity observed "By 1973, when he recorded ''Soaring'', a 10-cut musical haiku, all of his interests were converging into a style that was bold, intensely rhythmic and perfectly calibrated sound for the big screen. (It should be no surprise he was scoring '' The French Connection'' at same time he was working on this project)."Verity, M.Jazz History Online: Don Ellis: ''Soaring'' accessed March 5, 2015 Track listing ''All compositions by Don Ellis except as indicated'' # "Whiplash" ( Hank Levy) – 4:25 # "Sladka Pitka" ( Milcho Leviev) – 6:40 # "The Devil Made Me Write This Piece" – 6:00 # "Go Back Home" (Sam Falzone) – 3:15 # "Invin ...
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Bird Flight
Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species in which birds take off and fly. Flight assists birds with feeding, breeding, avoiding predators, and migrating. Bird flight is one of the most complex forms of locomotion in the animal kingdom. Each facet of this type of motion, including hovering, taking off, and landing, involves many complex movements. As different bird species adapted over millions of years through evolution for specific environments, prey, predators, and other needs, they developed specializations in their wings, and acquired different forms of flight. Various theories exist about how bird flight evolved, including flight from falling or gliding (the ''trees down'' hypothesis), from running or leaping (the ''ground up'' hypothesis), from ''wing-assisted incline running'' or from '' proavis'' (pouncing) behavior. Basic mechanics of bird flight Lift, Drag and Thrust The fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft, in ...
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Flying And Gliding Animals
A number of animals are capable of aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. This trait has appeared by evolution many times, without any single common ancestor. Flight has evolved at least four times in separate animals: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Gliding has evolved on many more occasions. Usually the development is to aid canopy animals in getting from tree to tree, although there are other possibilities. Gliding, in particular, has evolved among rainforest animals, especially in the rainforests in Asia (most especially Borneo) where the trees are tall and widely spaced. Several species of aquatic animals, and a few amphibians and reptiles have also evolved this gliding flight ability, typically as a means of evading predators. Types Animal aerial locomotion can be divided into two categories: powered and unpowered. In unpowered modes of locomotion, the animal uses aerodynamic forces exerted on the body due to wind or falling through the air. ...
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Dynamic Soaring
Dynamic soaring is a flying technique used to gain energy by repeatedly crossing the boundary between air masses of different velocity. Such zones of wind gradient are generally found close to obstacles and close to the surface, so the technique is mainly of use to birds and operators of radio-controlled gliders, but glider pilots are sometimes able to soar dynamically in meteorological wind shears at higher altitudes. Dynamic soaring is sometimes confused with slope soaring which is a technique for achieving elevation. Basic mechanism While different flight patterns can be employed in dynamic soaring, the simplest is a closed loop across the shear layer between two airmasses in relative movement, e.g. stationary air in a valley, and a layer of wind above the valley. The gain in speed can be explained in terms of airspeed and groundspeed: * As the glider begins the loop, say in a stationary airmass, groundspeed and airspeed are the same. * The glider enters the moving airmass ne ...
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Controllable Slope Soaring
Controllable-slope soaring (also known as Walkalong gliding) is a type of slope soaring where a slope is made to follow a walkalong glider (a lightweight toy aircraft), both sustaining and controlling the glider's trajectory by modifying the wind in the vicinity of the airplane. A controllable slope is any object which can be used to affect the air under the airplane: a piece of cardboard, the pilot's hands or even head. The controllable slope is usually manipulated by a person following the glider in flight (please see photo at right). Controllable-slope soaring allows a glider to achieve sustained flight without the need for an onboard aircraft engine or onboard flight control system. See also * Gliding flight * History of human-powered aircraft * Orographic lift * Ridge lift * Soaring * Walkalong glider A walkalong glider is a lightweight, slow-flying model aircraft designed to be kept aloft by controllable slope soaring in the rising air generated by the pilot ...
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