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
- An increased speed of growth in a mountains height
- Soaring (magazine), a magazine produced by the Soaring Society of America
- SOARING, a public artwork at Alverno College
- List of soaring birds
Other articles related to "soaring":
... flew in June 1938, in time to fly in the US National Soaring Championships ... One 2-8 was ordered by the Soaring Society of America for use by their general manager, Henry Wightman, and was flown from the Washington DC area ... with a sale of shares to Elmira Industries, local businessmen and soaring pilots ...
... proven the concept and popularity of one-design soaring competition and the company felt that a similar aircraft, but with more performance, would be popular. 16 October 1980 to Al Freedy of Hinckley Soaring, Schweizer's dealer in Chicago, where it was employed as a rental aircraft ... The 1-36 type certificate is currently held by K L Soaring of Cayuta, New York ...
... Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by soaring aircraft and soaring birds ... The three air sports that use soaring flight are gliding, hang gliding and paragliding ... 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 ...
... The aircraft was originally sold to the Altosaurus Soaring Club of North Conway, New Hampshire for USD$595 ... Lichner then general manager of the Soaring Society of America, who flew it often in California, including at the cliff-soaring site at Torrey Pines. 1-7 serial number 2 belongs to the National Soaring Museum ...
Famous quotes containing the word soaring:
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“O Holy Wisdom, Soaring Power, encompass us with wings unfurled,
and carry us, encircling all, above, below, and through the world.”
—Hildegard Von Bingen (1078–1179)
“There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)