Sentence examples for empty airplane from inspiring English sources

It shows Mr. Goodwin walking through an empty airplane, presumably not one that passengers are waiting impatiently to board.

The most striking visual in "Jet Lag" is a three-dimensional animation of the interior of an empty airplane getting built, row-by-row, right in front of your eyes.

In the film's funniest sequence, Melling oversees a heroic government-supervised makeover, performed in an empty airplane hangar by a crack team of hairdressers, make-up daubers and experts in the art of depilation.

NetJets will eliminate much-disliked "ferry fees" — charges for flying and repositioning an empty airplane to or from a client's destination — for many flights between the continental United States and major foreign destinations.

Here, on an empty airplane, VICE's John Doran talks to Cave about his wife, his home, and his childhood, the "dreaded" act of songwriting, and his artistic influences from American poet John Berryman, right through to the Bible.

Nelson Klug, an engineer who worked for both Boeing and Douglas Aircraft and who now is senior director of consulting at aviation firm Avitas, said the various weights listed in the document -- takeoff weight, landing weight, zero-fuel weight and others -- suggest to experts the size of the weight growth in the basic empty airplane.

Some travel agents have coupled their comments with reminders that the lagging economy has also contributed to near-empty airplanes.

What first drew him to UFOs were the stories: mysterious objects appearing on air traffic controllers' radar screens in places where the sky was empty of airplanes, World War II bombers seeing strange metallic spheres and colored balls of light, Air Force pilots engaging with phantasms they could sometimes photograph but never catch.

And here's the kicker: While airliners fly at close to a 90% load factor, perhaps more than 30% of private flights are empty – repositioning the airplane after dropping off one set of passengers to return to base or pick up other passengers.

At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, several empty JetBlue airplanes were frozen to the parking stands at the gates and incoming flights could not access the stands as a result, while outgoing flights already taxiing were ordered to hold on the taxiway due to weather conditions.

OTTAWA — An evacuation flight chartered by the government of Canada made it into Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on Friday morning, but after its crew was unable to find any Canadians at the chaotic airport, the airplane left empty.