Sentence examples for ferry flight from inspiring English sources

Though a helicopter comes out afterwards and picks up the Crown Prince, the weather stops the fourth ferry flight from the symposium from making it to Longyearbyen in time for the scheduled flight down south.

* FAA clears one-off 787 "ferry" flight.

While that request is pending, the FAA said on Wednesday it would allow a one-time 787 "ferry" flight.

Boeing said the plane, scheduled for delivery to China Southern Airlines, would be a "ferry" flight - used to relocate a plane without carrying passengers or conducting tests.

The jet will then be reunited with the very first orbiter it flew, the prototype Enterprise, for a ferry flight to New York City.

In December 2002, 711 crashed during a ferry flight, effectively bringing an end to the programme; the fault was later traced to structurally damaged right horizontal stabilizer, caused by the extensive load during high g post-stall tight turns.

He was a character, a kind of would-be bohemian columnist version of me, eager to impress, pleased with his own cleverness, fabricating meetings with Kurt Cobain and imagining shared-stage-fright ferry flights across the English Channel with Stephen Fry.

But it is not only trans-Atlantic ferry flights which are challenging.

Harwell mentions ferry flights, where Musk's jet would fly empty from the airport where he was dropped off to the one that was closer to where he was going to be when he was ready for his next flight.

Empty legs are ferry flights where a private jet is being flown back to its base after dropping off a revenue charter passenger or flying empty to pick up a revenue charter passenger.

The common wisdom is the folks who fly between private jet heavy markets like New York and South Florida are subsidizing those of you who fly from South Dakota to Oklahoma where getting you an aircraft within 10 hours probably involves empty ferry flights.