Sentence examples for combat flying from inspiring English sources

Blakeslee flew almost 500 missions in four years, accumulating nearly 1,000 hours of combat flying.

For Nissan, which can point to a half-century of experience in this country, the time has been more akin to the description of combat flying offered by the World War II ace Col. Gregory Boyington: hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

His naval combat flying effectively began in 1941 with 802 Squadron in a Grumman Martlet – in his book Wings on My Sleeve (1961), he called it "a tough, fiery, beautiful little airplane" – from HMS Audacity, the world's first "auxiliary carrier" (a converted German banana boat) on Clydeside-Gibraltar convoys.

With control using redundant multiple control surface arrangement and large-deflection drag rudders, a combat flying wing has a higher probability for control surface failures.

Each hole has to be drilled exactly right to prevent fatigue in the bolts and rivets that keep the aircraft intact under the severe stress of combat flying.

Results indicate that, in the circumstances of control surface failures with limited degree and the degradation of the flying quality level, a combat flying wing adopting this flight control reconfiguration approach based on control allocation could guarantee its flight safety and perform some flight combat missions.

Among his outstanding campaigns was the one to combat flies & the invention of the slogan: "Swat the Fly!" He also brought about the ban on the common drinking cup & the use of paper cups in public places.

Air Force combat controllers flew combat missions in MC-130H Combat Talon IIs and established austere desert airstrips to begin the flow of soldiers and supplies deep into Iraq.

Derbyshire environment officers have said they need to continue trying to combat fly-tipping, despite figures showing a drop in incidents.

In Vietnam, the rural population typically adds kitchen ash and, occasionally, lime to the latrine following a toilet visit, primarily to reduce the moisture content, prevent bad odour and to combat flies [ 10].

The sound of Israeli combat helicopters flying over the Judean Desert filtered through the restaurant.