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An example of backscatter unpowered wireless communications.

Fixed an issue causing the Melee Kickstart mod to consume Armor Charge when the player used an unpowered melee attack.

Once its powerful rocket ignited, the experimental aircraft streaked upward to the limits of the atmosphere, where it then glided unpowered to land on a dry lake bed.

The craft was used to test unpowered re-entry and landing – a technique that the Space Shuttle would adopt in the 1970s.

Capt. Chuck Yeager completed his, and the Air Force’s, first unpowered glide flight in the Bell X-1.

The Tango 6 is a variable power optic capable of swinging from 1x unpowered view all the way up to 6x magnification.

A bicycle legally operates as a vehicle (unpowered) and can use the roadway as long as they follow the applicable laws.

According to the RAF museum, 48 aircraft were captured intact and 24 were shipped to the United Kingdom for evaluation, although only one, VF241, was test flown (unpowered).

Apart from take-off and landing the rotor may be unpowered and autorotate.

Autogyros have unpowered rotors, with a separate power plant to provide thrust.

Beyond Brown's unauthorised flight, the British never tested the Me 163 under power themselves; due to the danger of its hypergolic propellants it was only flown unpowered.

Commercial horse-drawn canal boats could be seen on the UK's canals until as late as the 1950s, although by then diesel-powered boats, often towing a second unpowered boat, had become standard.

DMUs may have better acceleration capabilities, with more power-driven axles, making them more suitable for routes with frequent closely spaced stops, as compared with conventional locomotive and unpowered carriage setups.

Hang glider launching from Mount Tamalpais Unpowered aircraft can remain airborne for a significant period of time without onboard propulsion.

Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator of 17th-century Constantinople (present day Istanbul ), purported in the writings of traveler Evliya Çelebi to have achieved sustained unpowered flight.

In August 1973, the X-24B proved that an unpowered spaceplane could re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a horizontal landing.

In the past, unpowered military gliders have been used for military applications.

Major Siebel proposed giving the unpowered Type A barges their own motive power by installing a pair of surplus convert BMW aircraft engines, driving propellers.

Nowadays a "balloon" is an unpowered aerostat and an "airship" is a powered one.

Propulsion Unpowered aircraft main Gliders are heavier-than-air aircraft that do not employ propulsion once airborne.