How to Use airspeed in a Sentence

airspeed

noun

• The company said the air taxi had a true airspeed of 205 mph.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
• As the plane's airspeed increased, the pilot began climbing and then started a turn to the left, the report said.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2018
• But, in a counter-intuitive twist, the four-inch thick filter yielded an airspeed of 460 feet per minute.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• Now the service has revealed what went wrong: the pilots were given the wrong takeoff airspeed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• The flight-data recorder tracks more than 1,000 flight details, such as airspeed and altitude, the status of smoke alarms and the position of the wing flaps.
  — Liza Lin, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
• Users can still play simpler game modes to hop around the globe without having to constantly check their airspeed.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
• Fennell said the plane failed to gain sufficient airspeed after take off.
  — Maria Elena Vizcaino, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2018
• Flight-data recorders track details about flights, including airspeed and the position of the wing flaps.
  — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• Yet the airspeed is controllable, providing guests with just the right amount of airflow for optimal flight.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• The six independent motors operate the eVTOL in flight, with an airspeed up to 150 mph.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 July 2023
• Loss of power has no effect on speed if the nose is lowered, using altitude to maintain airspeed.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 25 June 2017
• Two bigger screens show a pretty intuitive map (for the amount of detail) of your airspace, as well as your airspeed and altitude and relation to the horizon.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2017
• Those adjustments would push the nose of the aircraft down to increase the lift generated by the wings with a combination of improved air flow over the wings and increased airspeed.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• In June last year, a first officer for an airline in the U.S. who hadn’t flown in nearly three months forgot to switch on the anti-icing mechanism for the plane’s airspeed sensors.
  — Anurag Kotoky, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2021
• This means each Doppler filter works as a velocity gate for a very specific airspeed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• The crew had recorded problems reading the instruments that track airspeed and altitude.
  — Barbara S. Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2018
• Shown are the contours of the maximum airspeed attained during the first 10 seconds after the blast wave enters the window; overpressure equals 5 pounds per square inch.
  — WIRED, 25 Jan. 2023
• On a flight the day before the crash, pilots were bombarded by warnings about airspeed, altitude and an impending stall.
  — Niniek Karmini, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• The system, known as synthetic airspeed, draws on several data sources to measure how fast a plane is moving.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Investigators said the crew had failed to turn on a heating unit, resulting in flawed airspeed readings.
  — Fox News, 4 Aug. 2018
• Over the years, those helicopters have evolved to increase their airspeed, range and capabilities.
  — Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2022
• The second black box tracks flight details from basic data such as airspeed, altitude, the status of smoke alarms and the position of the wing flaps, as well as the pilots’ inputs into the controls.
  — Trefor Moss and Yang Jie, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
• As air flows into the pitot tubes on a plane, data on airspeed and pressure is sent to the computer's onboard autopilot system and onto displays for the pilot.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2017
• As the report notes, the plane's maintenance logs reported problems with the airspeed and altitude readings on four of the six flights operating during the three days prior to the crash.
  — Barbara S. Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
• Aside from the loss of airspeed indication, everything is working fine.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2011
• Our testers were quite impressed by its sleek design, which includes a metal build and thoughtful features like its LED display, adjustable height, and wide range of airspeed settings.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2022
• Our testers were quite impressed by its sleek design, which includes a metal build and thoughtful features like its LED display, adjustable height, and wide range of airspeed settings.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2023
• In most modern aircraft the software driving how the controls respond behaves differently depending on airspeed, if it’s on the ground, in flight, if the flaps are up, and if the landing gear is up.
  — Shem Malmquist, Wired, 24 Apr. 2021
• To keep things simple, sort of, the researchers decided the birds in their calculations would be flapping (not gliding) at a constant airspeed of 10 meters per second.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2015
• The second black box is a flight-data recorder that can track more than 1,000 flight characteristics from the plane’s basic conditions, such as airspeed and altitude, to the status of smoke alarms or the positioning of the wing’s flaps.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024