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Sentence Examples With its 30-meter wingspan, it was considered too bulky, even for the Norwegian Museum in Oslo. In 1899 they built a little five-foot wingspan biplane kite to test out their control system. The limpkin is about 23-28 inches in length with a wingspan of about 42 inches. Swans are large birds with a wingspan of four feet or more and although injuries to humans are rare they are not unknown. The presence of a bird with a wingspan of around 1.5m must have been very distressing. As big as a goose and with a six-foot wingspan, the southern giant petrel nests throughout the Antarctic continent. The hydrogen-fueled aircraft has a wingspan of approximately 5 feet, measures 12 feet long and weighs about 2,800 pounds. When this maneuver is properly executed, you can literally turn within one wingspan. A substantial part of the lift generated by the forward-swept wing occurs at the inner portion of the wingspan. With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize. With a wingspan of three feet or more, flying foxes are the largest mammals capable of sustained flight. It was a supreme moment when a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wingspan of any bird, arrived! The wandering albatross is the largest of all albatrosses, with a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters. It measures 2.3m from elbow to elbow, the maximum wingspan of the African fish eagle. I later surmised, from the Turkish-military aircraft parked in the revetments, that this taxiway was for military aircraft with a short wingspan. The noctule bat's wingspan can reach up to 19 inches, although, like all British varieties, it is totally harmless. Known locally as solan geese, gannets are Britain's biggest seabird, having a wingspan of up to six feet. It's the largest wading bird in North America, standing up to five feet tall with a wingspan of almost eight feet. A good rule of thumb when buying or constructing a flight cage for large parrots is that the width should be twice the wingspan, plus a handspan. These tall thin birds have long necks, bills, and legs and a very wide wingspan. Show More Sentences The bat they studied was the gray-headed flying fox, about the size of a small chihuahua and sporting a nearly four-foot wingspan. White-tailed sea eagles, which have a wingspan of up to eight feet across, were once common in the United Kingdom. Great horned owls are the largest owls in North America, with females obtaining a wingspan of five feet and weighing up to five pounds. She turned around to face a gigantic brown bird with talons three times the size of her hand and a wingspan of at least ten feet. The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly has a wingspan of approximately 2 inches. Female adults have a wingspan of 18-27 mm while male adults have a wingspan of 15-23 mm. As Maersk points out the derrick alone is bigger than a Boeing 747-400 jet, which is a mere 56 metres in length with a wingspan of 60 metres. Known for its massive seven-foot wingspan and distinct trumpeting calls, the protected trumpeter swan was at one time on the brink of extinction. The male moths have light brown to gray wings with a wingspan of 25 mm while the female has virtually no wings and is flightless. Rufforth Airfield has been hosting the Yorkshire Air Spectacular, with flying model craft ranging in size from miniatures to monsters with a 25 ft wingspan. Fourth season and three new models, the wingspan is progressively enfolding to welcome other adepts to benefit from the Black Crows craft. Pteranodon, a Late Cretaceous form found in North America, had a long cranial crest and a wingspan exceeding 7 metres. Light-brown moths with a wingspan of 25-37 mm and two distinct dark-brown bands on the forewing. Eggs from the fish-eating osprey, a magnificent bird of prey with a six-foot wingspan, are particularly highly-prized because of their distinctive markings. With its 8ft wingspan and massive nests, it is conspicuous and, unlike the notoriously wary golden eagle, an inquisitive animal. An adult male in flight is a glorious sight, with its wingspan of well over a metre and ghostly grey plumage. So, although it has a wingspan of 61 metres, HB-SIA has room only for a pilot. In 2009, a Solar Impulse prototype with a 61-metre wingspan will take off on its maiden flight, flying 36 hours powered only by the sun. This large bird can be forty-two inches in length, have a wingspan of eight feet, and have a mass of fifteen pounds. The C-17 is a four-engine military transport plane that is more than 53 metres in length and has a wingspan of almost 52 metres. Show More Sentences The American White Pelican is a huge white bird with a nine-foot wingspan. The surface area of the wings is tremendous and the wingspan large, but the relative length of the fuselage is shorter than most other aircraft of its era. That would have been a huge wingspan for a bird, much less for a bat. The Sunseeker has the wingspan of a 747 and a body the same size as a sedan. Its fine sandy beach runs the length of its 40 km wingspan, and just under a million Germans holiday here every year, so why is it that we Brits haven't even heard of it? This bird has a bald, red face that only a mother could love, but it boasts an incredible nine-foot wingspan and a majesty in flight that rivals any raptor. Despite its 72-metre wingspan, the plane has room for but a single pilot a job Mr Borschberg will share with Bertrand Piccard, a psychiatrist and balloonist who helped start the Solar Impulse project a dozen years ago. It has the swooping, symmetrical grace of a bird's wingspan. The viceroy is smaller, with a wingspan of 70 to 75 mm. The small blue butterfly, or the Cupido minimus, is the UK's smallest butterfly, with a wingspan of only 16 to 27mm. For example, the verges of the runways were extended so that there is no blast damage on the grass from the outer engines of the A380, whose wingspan reaches 80 metres. The effect is the greatest when very close to the ground and vanishes when the aircraft's height is approximately equal to the wingspan of the airplane. The Raven, made by AeroVironment, a Californian company, is a hand-launched reconnaissance aircraft with a wingspan of about 1.4 metres that is widely used by the American armed forces. This change in wingspan suggests that natural selection could indeed be at work and that, when faced with new threats from humankind, these birds might be evolving in response. Champion swimmers think of Germany's Michael Gross at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984—have a wingspan that would shame an albatross. Yet there are important exceptions. The Steller's sea eagle, larger in both weight and total length, is the closest rival for median wingspan amongst living eagles. That's no wonder, because with a length of 73 metres, a height of 24 metres and a wingspan of nearly 80 metres you certainly can't miss the new giant of the skies. Also described as being like a giant bat, the Kongamato has large teeth, red leathery skin, and a wingspan of four to seven feet. If built to a conventional design, the wingspan of the A380 would have had to be about 3 m longer to create the lift needed to get the fuselage into the air. This drone, which has a wingspan of 1.2 metres, incorporates a geodetic structure a lattice-like frame developed in the 1930s by Barnes Wallis, a British aeronautical engineer. Show More Sentences The wingspan was decreased by using blended winglets instead of raked wingtips. The A350 features new composite wings with a wingspan that is common to the proposed variants. The bird-cherry ermine moth has several rows of black dots on its forewing, and a wingspan of 16-25 mm. At 17-21 cm length and a 32-36 cm wingspan, it is similar in size to a Starling but a little but tubbier, with a thick bill. The most liked are the species that live near water bodies such as the common pipistrelle, Poland's smallest bat, with a weight of just 5g and a wingspan of about 20cm, which eats some 1000 mosquitoes a night. They are ugly looking buzzards, but remarkable for their 11-foot wingspan. In 1917, Glenn Curtiss, the pioneer airplane builder and a founder of the Curtiss-Wright aircraft company, combined a four-wheel sedan and a triplane with a 40-foot wingspan. Developed by Sagem Défense Sécurité and manufactured in its Montlucon, France, factory, the Sperwer UAV is a remote-controlled aircraft with a 4.2-meter wingspan, carrying a highly powerful, gyrostabilized optronic payload. However, this adaptation does not permit bats to reduce their wingspan as birds do, which means they cannot travel over long distances like birds can. The spectral bat hunts reptiles, amphibians, birds, large insects, and even other bats, using its three-foot wingspan to glide silently down onto its prey. At that point, the only things in the Guyanese jungle wider than the wingspan of the enormous Harpy Eagle were the amazed smiles of the two Scots there to witness it. This species' wingspan is the fifth largest amongst extant eagle species. Examples from Classical Literature The Mexican find, a new species of the genus Dimorphodon, is a primitive pterosaur with a long tail and a wingspan of 6 feet. Dennis is 6-foot-8, 265 pounds and has a wingspan of 7-4 from fingertip to fingertip, coach Kevin Bromley said. Find more words! 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