Sentence examples for airliner it from inspiring English sources

"The eighth time I flew an airliner, it was that one.

If a drone weighing more than a couple of pounds hits an airliner it will shred an engine or break a windscreen.

In a jet the fuselage consists of a cockpit large enough only for the controls and pilot, but in a jet airliner it includes a much larger cockpit as well as a cabin that has separate decks for passengers and cargo.

Two weeks ago, we learned that a federal prosecutor trying to find the source of a story about the C.I.A. and a plot in Yemen to bomb an American airliner (it involved a double agent) secretly subpoenaed records from more than twenty phone lines used by more than a dozen editors and reporters at the Associated Press.

The huge mock-up at the air show looked and felt every inch the new-generation airliner it wants to be.

Given that there is a life-jacket under every seat on a commercial airliner, it might not seem like a bad idea to stuff a chute under there too.

"In 2003 the US and several partners - acting on information from several detainees - disrupted a plot to attack Heathrow airport using hijacked commercial airliners," it said.

All of which helps explain why, for instance, a lot of tomato juice is consumed on airliners: it tastes far less acidic up in the air than it does down on the ground.

Some people will always view the filling in of forms as an attack on their personal freedom, but as governments rush to do something about the lack of accountability for drone ownership that has seen 4kg lumps of whirring metal zoom through the flight paths of jet airliners, it's surely incumbent upon drone owners to assume some collective responsibility.

When we see ultra-light experimental electric planes it's easy to assume there will soon be clean, green, electric airliners – it's even suggested by a category in the Longitude Prize 2014 – but it won't happen any time soon.

I would like to reiterate this fact -- Al Qaeda didn't just hijack four airliners, it also attempted to hijack the Islamic religion in the eyes of the world.