Yet when Nux's rig crashes, Max wanders the desert, finds Furiosa and her rig, attempts to commandeer it, but quickly learns that his only chance for survival is to make common cause with her as she flees fast convoys of more imposing weaponry dispatched from the Citadel — and he doesn't at all mind sticking it to his former captors.
Convoy Faith was a small, fast Allied convoy of July 1943, during World War II; it suffered heavy casualties when attacked by German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range bombers while en route from Britain to West Africa.
In June the two sisters represented a fast troop convoy being attacked by aircraft during an air defence exercise.
It was interesting to be part of a fast-moving convoy, but having to stop and be as present as possible when people let you into their homes and tell you their stories.
Travelling fast, in a convoy of several dozen battlewagons, they escaped to a traffic circle two miles outside Surt, and there they came under fire.
It may be harder to reproduce that combination in the Gulf of Guinea.In the narrow Gulf of Aden, for instance, ships were encouraged to sail fast and in convoys to make it harder for pirates to board; passive defences (such as bullet-proof rooms) and guards could buy enough time for warships nearby to come to the rescue.
These two destroyers, being faster than the convoy since its speed was dictated by the slower transports, broke away from the group to disembark the survivors at Lae.
To quote Lockhart after he hears the news of this: "WHAT THE F--KING F--K?!" News of the convoy hit travels fast, as the explosion happened mere blocks from the embassy.
But then, in the late morning the next day, groups of tourists from Puerto Vallarta began arriving by boat, in convoys of kayaks, fast motorboats and even zodiacs launched from a fake pirate ship moored offshore.
Mr. Williams sped up, slowed down again, straddled lanes, and passed a convoy of U.P.S. vans fast enough that "it rattles their trucks," Mr. Weil added.
