Sentence examples for aircraft proved from inspiring English sources

His doctoral work on the problems of control and guidance of high-speed aircraft proved valuable in the development of automatic flight control, automatic tracking equipment, homing systems for guided missiles, and intercontinental ballistic missile control systems.

For the landing, the aircraft proved quite docile.

The reconnaissance aircraft proved to be unsuitable after several months' testing.

In fact, the British estimate of 225 aircraft proved too small.

On 7 March 1933, the system for non-radio aircraft proved effective when a de Havilland DH.60 Moth of British Air Transport failed to arrive at Lympne.

The Sea Harrier and the Harrier fought in the 1982 Falklands War, in which the aircraft proved to be crucial and versatile.

The aircraft ultimately proved to lack the structural strength required for operations aboard aircraft carriers and was withdrawn in mid-1947.

She remained in use until 1976, when she was broken up for scrap Following the loss of the battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during which British aircraft carriers proved instrumental, and the near torpedoing of her sistership Tirpitz by carrier-launched aircraft in March 1942, the Kriegsmarine became convinced of the necessity of acquiring aircraft carriers.

U.S. naval forces fought many major battles with Japanese forces in the Pacific in which aircraft carriers proved decisive.

For all of the online legwork, though, sweat, shoe leather and aircraft have proved more fruitful so far.

The UK is to extend air strikes by RAF Tornados against Islamic State in Iraq by a year, the defence secretary has said, arguing that the aircraft had "proved their worth" in the air campaign.