thermals
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In the first, a quadrotor drone was able to observe four hovering white balls while avoiding four orange balls, all while navigating an airfield rife with randomly occurring, dangerous air currents, or thermals.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
As spectators chant and funnel into the tree-lined stadium, the day starts to warm, which is when spotted lanternflies can be found rising into the air on thermals.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023
Vultures, another raptor, are easy to spot in the early afternoon because they “get up on the thermals and fly miles and miles and miles” looking for food, he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Guests at a September book launch party for Montalba Architects gather on one of the Hammer Museum’s mezzanines that overlook Westwood and circle the display like hawks riding thermals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Twenty more seconds before she rode out the flare and was running on thermals.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
