Sentence examples for a practice mission from inspiring English sources

Early one morning, Ranger Iqaluk stood between the frozen sea and a group of soldiers heading out on snowmobiles on a practice mission to secure an airfield.

The platoon was to function as a quick-reaction force, American officials and former employees said, and began training for a practice mission: a terrorist attack on the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, the world's tallest building.

It had been renamed in honor of Dave Semple, a bombardier who was killed during a practice mission on March 7 , 1946

7 component-tests between 23 July and 8 August involving rehearsal drops of four inert Little Boy gun-type fission weapons and three Fat Man assemblies, and a practice mission on 29 July to Iwo Jima in which an inert Little Boy was unloaded and then reloaded to rehearse the contingency plan for using a back-up bomber in an emergency.

Disguises - never let your enemy spot you or see who you are! Go on a practice mission.

Plan everything out that you're going to do 3 days before you do it and make sure there is a plan A, plan B and plan C. Do a practice mission at least three to four times before doing the real thing.

After barely surviving a plane crash during a military practice mission in 1917, DeHaven was inspired to pursue a career in safety engineering.

Frank flew further missions in Do 217 "D5+LK" on a target practice mission on 9 April 1943.

Some privately-backed rival ventures are even forecasting that they will get to Mars orbit as early as 2018; Nasa plans a deep-space practice mission, to rendezvous with a captured asteroid, by 2025.

On 30 June 1941 while flying Bf 110 C-4 (W.Nr. 3273) on a practice intercept mission over Noord Holland, he collided with Bf 110 C-7 (W.Nr. 2075) piloted by Leutnant Rudolf Schoenert of the 4./NJG 1 and crashed near Bergen aan Zee.

He flew a number of practice missions, but not the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.