How to change the phrase "the way" to an actual "thing"?

I am writing the following:

Every single aspect of drones – the mechanical whir of their propellers, the way they gracefully zoom hundreds of feet into the air, the complex sensors that effortlessly stabilize the camera – absolutely mesmerizes me.

I am trying to find a way to reword the phrase “the way they gracefully zoom hundreds of feet into the air” to not use “the way”, but instead an actual thing, like whir or sensors. Basically I am looking for a word that describes the flight of a drone.