Sentence examples for autonomous planes from inspiring English sources

The glass walls, he said, float free from the floor, appearing to be autonomous planes.

To begin with, we will look at the distinction between the interactive and autonomous planes, first introduced as a concept by Sinclair (1981) and then developed by Hunston (2000).

Kitty Hawk has been keeping its efforts in New Zealand under wraps by operating its autonomous planes in testing there under the name 'Zephyr Airworks,' and by doing the work on this passenger plane under the code name "Zee Aero," which is the name of what some had suspected was a separate company backed by Page and led by former airline executive Fred Reid.

Unlike the Predator, the kite-shaped UCAV is an autonomous plane that flies itself without constant direction from any human being.

Fig. 1 Hunston's interactive plane and autonomous plane.

No items on the autonomous plane have been identified.

(The interactive plane is in bold, the autonomous plane is in italics).

For this reason, the autonomous plane is placed within the interactive plane in Fig. 4.

The linguistic realizations on the autonomous plane also function on the interactive plane, but this does not necessarily happen the other way round.

Hunston (2000: 203) presented her sample text as being entirely on the interactive plane, although large parts could also be judged to function on the autonomous plane.

On the other hand, in Hunston's (2000: 195) view evaluations bestowed on the outside world (the autonomous plane) reflected the ideology of the section of society from which the writer came.