Sentence examples for a plane ahead from inspiring English sources

The pilot, encountering turbulence from a plane ahead, pushed a foot pedal to extend the rudder all the way in one direction, then the other, then switched again.

It is not unusual for a plane to encounter the wake of a plane ahead of it, and the 747 ahead of Flight 587 was farther in front than the required 4 nautical miles, about 4.6 statute miles.

The investigators' shift in emphasis does not mean they have ruled out earlier theories, including sabotage, a bird strike, or problems caused by "wake vortices" from a Japan Airlines plane ahead of Flight 587.

The BBC's Puneet Pal Singh got a closer look at the plane ahead of the airshow.

In the finite element model developed, a through-width delamination is introduced close to one surface of a flat panel, and a void is placed in the delamination plane ahead of each delamination front.

The C-mount adapter flange has been moved closer to the objective and so intercepts the imaging path in a plane well ahead of the intermediate image.

Here we study the effects of void growth on cleavage fracture by modeling discrete cylindrical voids lying on the crack plane ahead of the crack tip within a small-scale yielding (SSY) boundary layer model.

A crystallographic relationship between the primary crack plane and the secondary slip plane ahead of the crack tip is suggested to explain the dependence of FCGRs on orientation.

Mr. Stevens said the company's overall performance was improving, with flight tests on the other two versions of the plane ahead of schedule.

The arrival of Tropical Storm Mekkhala forced the Pope to return to his plane ahead of schedule after warnigns from the Philippines Airlines pilot over bad weather conditions for fluying.

Members simply log into the site and create an alert for a future flight, then select their criteria, like a window, middle, aisle or "aisle or window" seat as well as their desired area of the plane: ahead of the wing, over the wing, behind the wing, in the exit row or by the bulkhead.