3/12/2023 0 Comments Jettison bilge pump‘With no ballast this glider is a handful even in Florida air.’.‘I really need to test glide back at Quest with varying amounts of ballast to see how it flies with more then my light wing loading.’.‘To qualify for the $10m Ansari X-Prize, the craft must make two trips to an altitude of 100 km, carrying ballast equivalent to two passengers.’.‘Depleted uranium is used, for example, in boats and airplanes as ballast.’.‘In Class 3 ballast became a problem early on as light pilots filled their harnesses with lead so they could fly the same size wings as the bigger guys.’.‘Fortunately, the discussion of ballast, glider, and pilot weight, including wing span, has happened before.’.‘I longed to tell her that dreams can lose their buoyancy, like a gas balloon weighted with too much ballast, sandbagged by too many years.’.‘The band could use some stinging ballast to balance their sugary tendencies.’.‘First, the experimenters tested three unpowered dummy missiles with ballast to simulate the N-69.’.‘It seems like smaller gliders would be preferable and then I wouldn't have to carry the ballast.’.‘That makes me think that I could have flown a glider that wouldn't have seemed so ‘big’ and not had to carry the ballast.’.‘Some bundles of cardboard are bound in a way that airlines can use them as ballast, an extra weight required when the plane doesn't have enough cargo or passengers.’.‘It's almost twice as heavy as lead, so it's great for armour plating, radiation shielding, ballast in missiles and aircraft counterweights.’.‘Either he carries more ballast, or his glider/harness has less drag than the ATOS C with me or Johann on it.’.1.1 Heavy material carried in an airship or on a hot-air balloon to stabilize it, and jettisoned when greater altitude is required.‘The increased sail area and the raised center of effort required nearly 1,000 more pounds of ballast.’.‘Their only interest in the brownstone was probably as occasional ballast for their canoes.’.‘The Groattie Hoose, also known as Gow's Folly, was built in 1730 using ballast from Pirate Gow's ship, the Revenge.’.‘But lying on the ballast, where the ship's ammunition store was located, were quantities of stone, lead, and iron shot.’.‘The cedar was all cut down (so now other species, many of them weeds, grow up) and shipped to Britain as the ballast in ships.’.‘The main reason why the ship had sunk is presumed to be that it was poorly designed, highly overloaded with ballast and heavy armaments.’.‘The keel is arranged in box form to carry ballast, and profiled bilge keels are fitted.’.‘The keel is a centreboard but not weighted the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).’.‘Shipowners are very conscious of the problems that a ship's ballast brings with it.’.‘Too much of this ballast, and the ship will wallow in the river, endangering the crew and more importantly the cargo if the ship were to capsize.’.‘Fassel has good reason not to weigh his ship down with excess ballast.’.‘The proposals include getting ships to discharge their ballast in open water - or possibly treat the water to kill off unwanted organisms.’.‘Dutch brick went round the world as ballast in trading ships, confounding its origins as a local, geologically dependent material.’.‘In many cases the mode of introduction will be obvious (e.g., ships, their ballast, or importations of infested foodstuffs).’.‘However, the sediment is not usually resuspended when a ship discharges its ballast.’.‘That warning enabled her to take on extra water ballast, put out sea anchors and batten down for the blow.’.‘Lack of proper ballast made the ship unmanageable and he dropped her port bow anchor and radioed for help.’.‘The shells could have been brought back as ballast on ships or collected by sailors or travelers for their wives, daughters, or friends.’.‘The bilges are firm and ballast is low which makes for a stiff boat that stands up well to a blow.’.‘Many ships discharge their ballast and bilge during loading and unloading because many Black Sea ports lack reception facilities.’.
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