Sentence examples for ancient aircraft from inspiring English sources

Keeping such ancient aircraft flying in the face of metal fatigue and corrosion is a constant struggle: just 120 are deemed mission-ready.

His latest project is to build a huge glass hangar at Salzburg airport to house his collection of ancient aircraft, including a DC-6 that once belonged to Marshal Tito, and to host airshows.How long can Red Bull remain cool?

Controlling your ancient aircraft requires timing, speed control and swift, skilful movement - it's easy to get hold of the basics, but later, there's enough depth in the control system to allow for a range of strategies.

Nimrod XV230 was an ancient aircraft doing a vital surveillance job over the battleground of Panjwai being contested by a large Taliban force and a few hundred Canadian soldiers.

Earlier this week China Southern Airlines president Tan Wangeng, speaking at an industry conference in Guangzhou, said his carrier, Asia's largest and the world's sixth-largest, plans to have 1,000 jetliners – real ones, big ones, not small regional jets, turboprops or ancient aircraft built in the old Soviet Union or more recently in the third world – in its fleet in less than two years.

For more than a dozen years a fleet of ancient Antonov aircraft owned by the former Russian military officer Viktor Bout would land on the precarious desert and jungle airstrips in conflict zones around the world.

After an exhausting trip from London to Karachi and a hair-raising flight to Lahore on an ancient Fokker aircraft I arrived at the front desk of Lahore's Inter-Continental Hotel.

In a reminder of the days of heavy Soviet influence, ancient Tupolev military aircraft can be seen parked at the airport of the capital, Vientiane, and a clock in the passenger terminal shows Moscow time.

It said the sites could contain anything from crashed aircraft to ancient settlements.

The circular crimson crane that adorns the tail of every J.A.L.. aircraft is an ancient symbol of good fortune, prosperity and long life.

These are then used by researchers to probe the fundamental structure of anything from Dead Sea scrolls too fragile to open, to samples of avian-flu virus, aircraft wings or ancient bones.This is Diamond Light Source, the newest addition to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in rural Oxfordshire, and the country's most expensive government-funded physics facility of the past four decades.