Sentence examples for airplane capable from inspiring English sources
(His current project is the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, an airplane capable of circumnavigating the globe without refueling).
The origin of the aerospace industry dates to 1903 when Wilbur and Orville Wright demonstrated an airplane capable of powered, sustained flight (see Wright flyer of 1903).
It represented the final step in their quest for a practical airplane capable of staying aloft for extended periods of time under the complete control of the pilot.
#2: Developing an airplane capable of setting a world record for distance of flight demands that safety precautions for the pilot be neglected.
But during the spring semester, the juniors and seniors applied their engineering know-how to designing a hypersonic airplane capable of flying more than 10 times the speed of sound.
Thursday about 200 miles off the coast of Japan, involved a KC-130 Hercules, a turboprop airplane capable of aerial refueling, and an F/A-18 Hornet, a combat jet.
Trucks and buses and even small airplanes capable of operating with short landing strips increasingly have been used to transport goods and people, replacing the traditional horses, mules, and burros.
And though the martian atmosphere has less than 1percentt of the pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level, a few aerospace engineers are drawing up blueprints for small unmanned airplanes capable of flying across vast expanses of the martian terrain.
PAGE B2 GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP Since many new airplanes are capable of flying nonstop for as long as 20 hours, the Federal Aviation Administration is again wrestling with a troublesome question: How do you make sure the flight crews get enough sleep?
Even though any lithium ion battery -- the same ones that power laptops, iPads and, yes, even airplanes -- is capable of going up in flames, the negative buzz surrounding the Note 7 can't be denied, and airline crew should be overly cautious of any potential threat.
Unlike an airplane or airship, it is capable of taking off and landing in an area the size of a soccer field- one piece of infrastructure found virtually everywhere in Africa.
