Sentence examples for crosswind from high-quality English sources.

• Les: Landing in a crosswind situation requires a couple of different maneuvers.

• After the plane landed safely in a crosswind, and I had shaken Morgan’s hand a little too hard, my mother sprang another surprise.

• A piece of equipment that has been designed to work really well when the air is flowing in one direction might hold athletes back in a crosswind.

• The echelon is where riders position themselves at slight angles alongside each other, to ensure they get the best protection from a crosswind and preserve energy for later in the race.

• Alex Appolonia: Whenever there is a crosswind, there's a lot of turbulence, so it's not like the pilots are flying through a slight summer breeze.

• All right, and you're completely engaged, and actively controlling the airplane so, actually some of our best landings are made when we are in these crosswind landing situations.

• Shortly before his proposed departure date, in the countryside near his home city of Bradford, he attempted an emergency landing in a crosswind, hit a hedge, and flipped his plane.

• In “Crosswind Kite Power,” an article in the Journal of Energy, Loyd demonstrated that simply dragging a kite back and forth across a wind would generate much more power than letting it bounce around freely.

Use crosswind in a sentence.

• The 163-horsepower tiny home on wheels is powered by its 120-kilowatt engine and includes capabilities that improve its drive, such as crosswind assist, which Daimler claims steadies the van during strong crosswinds.

• It takes remarkably little engine power to roll a 747 along the ground, with the inertia of all its 300 tons behind it, so little in fact that in a strong crosswind the engines are not running fast enough to pull in the air they need.

• "So in order to counteract that, we'd lower the wing, the upwind wing, we lower the wing, and straighten the nose out, and a perfect crosswind landing will be when the upwind wheel touches down first, the aircraft is straight down the runway, and then the second wheel will come down after that."