Sentence examples for a plane that could from inspiring English sources
To begin with, there was some enthusiasm for a plane that could lop an hour off a transatlantic flight and three off some transpacific ones.
"When the country was experiencing a crisis in the South Pacific, it needed a plane that could take on the fast Japanese airplanes," he said.
The episode underscored the need for a plane that could rise high above Soviet air defenses and fly deep into Soviet territory.
About six years ago, not long after Burt Rutan, an aircraft designer, had begun to think seriously of building a plane that could leave the Earth's atmosphere, he woke up at his desert home, a few miles outside the town of Mojave, California, and said, "I've got an idea".
And what had been the strength of the previous Northrop and EADS bid — a plane that could carry more fuel and cargo than the Air Force had sought — became a liability as the competition turned into a shootout over which bidder could offer the lower price.
By Ian Parker About six years ago, not long after Burt Rutan, an aircraft designer, had begun to think seriously of building a plane that could leave the Earth's atmosphere, he woke up at his desert home, a few miles outside the town of Mojave, California, and said, "I've got an idea".
For its part, Airbus says it always recognized that there was a market for a midsize plane that could fly long distances.
And Hawker Siddeley's Intercity Vertical-Lift Aircraft, intended as a passenger plane that could land in urban airports not much bigger than pocket handkerchiefs, looks like the sort of thing that would have whisked Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, International Rescue's London agent, from her penthouse in Mayfair to New York for a day's shopping.Sadly, none of these fantasies made it into metal.
After a Soviet surface-to-air missile battery showdown with a USAF U-2 spy plane near the closed city of Sverdlovsk in 1960, the US government realised they needed a reconnaissance plane that could fly even higher – and outrun any missile and fighter launched against it.
The Douglas Aircraft Company, which designed an attack plane that could be housed and launched from a Regulus sub's missile hangar, owes a similar tip of the hat.
They traveled around in a huge space plane that could turn into a phoenix, and everyone on the show had a cool vehicle that detached from the phoenix.
