How to Use airspeed in a Sentence

airspeed

noun

• In any case, the fastest airspeeds are not reached in flapping or gliding flight but in dives by birds of prey.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• The company said the air taxi had a true airspeed of 205 mph.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
• Fennell said the plane failed to gain sufficient airspeed after take off.
  — Maria Elena Vizcaino, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 June 2018
• Users can still play simpler game modes to hop around the globe without having to constantly check their airspeed.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Flight-data recorders track details about flights, including airspeed and the position of the wing flaps.
  — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The mental bandwidth required to bring your hand to a specific spot while managing airspeed and g-forces is high.
  — David Szondy april 25, New Atlas, 25 Apr. 2026
• 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
• In aviation, mach represents the ratio of an aircraft’s true airspeed to the local speed of sound.
  — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 6 June 2026
• This means each Doppler filter works as a velocity gate for a very specific airspeed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Aside from the loss of airspeed indication, everything is working fine.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2020
• The system, known as synthetic airspeed, draws on several data sources to measure how fast a plane is moving.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• The crew had recorded problems reading the instruments that track airspeed and altitude.
  — Barbara S. Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Corrections were made after the first call out, the plane was on speed, but moments later, the airspeed slowed, according to the report.
  — Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 4 June 2026
• Ice crystals threw off the plane’s airspeed sensors and its autopilot disconnected.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 17 Apr. 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
• Granted, there are certain variables, such as impact from airspeed, that can vary slightly between different airplane types.
  — Doug Drury, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The cockpit voice recording contains no exchange between the pilots recognizing the airspeed as an issue.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• So far, authorities have indicated that a problem with the plane's airspeed indicator played a part in the disaster.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
• This design, which features propellers set into a half-circle channel on each wing, provided planes shorter take-off distances thanks to lift at slower airspeeds.
  — New Atlas, 7 Apr. 2026
• Ice accumulation can wreak havoc inside modern jet engines or on the tips of airspeed-measuring devices extending from the noses of jets, called pitot tubes.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 2 July 2017
• Prosecutors said Alani glued styrofoam inside the nose of the aircraft that disabled a part used to gauge airspeed and other critical flight data.
  — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2019
• The handicap is determined by a volunteer gathering data in the air and a committee that calculates the maximum airspeed of each craft.
  — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026