Assertion: glider | /r/HasProperty | sailplane
Facets:
value: these days
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: glider (sailplane)
text: Such gliders designed for soaring are sometimes called sailplanes.
text: They are scanning the bright blue sky, tracking a type of glider known as a sailplane.
text: These days almost all gliders are sailplanes, but in the past many gliders were not.
text: For the sport of soaring in gliders (sailplanes), see Gliding
text: The types of aircraft that are used for sport and recreation are classified as gliders (sailplanes), hang gliders and paragliders.
text: When done in gliders (sailplanes), the sport is known as gliding and sometimes as soaring.
text: To achieve higher speed across country, gliders (sailplanes) are often loaded with water ballast to increase the airspeed and so reach the next area of lift sooner.
text: Gliders (sailplanes) have minimum sink rates of between 0.4 and 0.6 m/s depending on the class.
text: Most gliders are sailplanes
text: Therefore, please comment here in the normal wiki way, so we can as best we can, establish the consensus position, is the definition of a glider: sailplanes or is it simply any unpowered aircraft?
text: So if you say effectively 'gliders are sailplanes' then you're being overnarrow.
text: These days almost all gliders are sailplanes, but in the past many gliders were not.