Sentence examples for an old plane from inspiring English sources

("Recovering" an old plane means taking it out of storage).

"It's an old plane, made probably in the 1990s, but I don't have any problem in that.

But flying Virgin to Tokyo felt like travelling on an old plane ready to be retired – which is exactly what is about to happen.

Warren D. Miller, co-founder of Beckmill Research, a Lexington, Va., firm that appraises private businesses, said he braces himself for an old plane except when flying JetBlue Airways, which operates newer Airbus A320s.

Around the harbour, culture in the shape of a former mosque, a castle, and an old plane tree (dubiously designated as Hippocrates' tree) sits alongside occasional Irish theme bars and tourist tat shops.

In the short term, it's always cheaper to keep flying an old plane than to buy a new one.

This past spring we found a fine new restaurant in Walla Walla, Whitehouse-Crawford, set in an old planing mill downtown.

WHITEHOUSE-CRAWFORD, 55 West Cherry Street, Walla Walla (509-525-2222), opened in May, housed in an old planing mill that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

He got in to trouble on the 1990-91 tour for flying in a Tiger Moth over the ground when England played a state game in Queensland, and on the third morning he was back up in the sky – the real one, that is – in a rickety old plane, dressed to the nines and grinning expansively.

The B.P. Cafe occupies the space between the pavilion and W. 40th St. and also a much larger space between the Bryant statue and West 42nd St.; patrons sit at tables under the leafy branches of a grove of robust old plane trees, or at a couple of bars tucked beneath pretty, green-striped tents.

8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.