The Backfires, speed made for difficult pursuit curves, and the fighters were notoriously short on fuel.

These are known as pursuit curves.

AOT are generally grouped into three categories, called "pursuit curves."

The trawler problem is a real-life application of pursuit curves used to find slow-travelling boats.

Numb3rs series writer Ken Sanzel based the original script on the concept of pursuit curves.

Series writer Ken Sanzel drew inspiration for the episode from pursuit curves.

While there he wrote a thesis based on their work on pursuit curves, and he received his master's degree from Columbia in 1945.

Since "Spree" was based on the concept of pursuit curves, Sanzel based included a variation called the trawler problem in "Two Daughters".

Pure pursuit is a type of pursuit curve used in aerial combat in which an aircraft pursues another aircraft by pointing its nose directly towards it.

"Pursuit Curve" (2004), her third animated video, riffs on ideas of landscape in miniature painting; in the piece, pastel shapes meld and dissolve into patterns and landscape motifs.

Even in a pursuit curve, they streaked past the enemy's decoys before the return fire could range on the human lures, and she felt a savage grin stretch her lips as one group of missiles ran in on each of the two rearmost Trollheims.

Given the geometry of the cruiser's pursuit curve, that had worked out to an overtake advantage of forty-two thousand kilometers per second-well, 40,007.162 KPS, if Ferrero wanted to be fussy about it-over an initial range of three and a half light-minutes.

His nose flipped up and he committed to a pursuit curve . . . and she reversed her turn, slammed the stick forward, and pitched into an even steeper dive that had her floating against her harness straps as she howled down toward the distant sea.

Instead, the aircraft is rolled until its lift vector, (an imaginary line running vertically from the center of the aircraft, perpendicular to its wings), is aligned either ahead of, directly at, or behind the defender, using roll rate instead of turn rate to set the proper pursuit curve.

While telling his friend and colleague Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) about these changes and the idea about the Wyoming shooting, Charlie becomes inspired to use pursuit curves to model Crystal and Buck's as well as Ian's movements throughout the western United States.