Sentence examples for first few flights from inspiring English sources

The pilot, Donald T. Simonds, a captain and 27-year airline veteran, refused to fly a Boeing 727 home from Sanford, Fla., because, although the original schedule was legal, delays on the first few flights meant he would be working 17 hours by the time he landed.

Today at Kitty Hawk there are markers of that historic flight: the 60-foot-tall granite hilltop Wright Brothers National Memorial, the original landing field on Milepost 8 at Kill Devil Hills (though covered by grass, it is still a working airstrip) and the large stone markers pointing out where the Wrights' first few flights landed.

Yet, based on a classical frequentist analysis, we find that for these first few flights, the differences in the mean failure rates over successive launches or over successive generations of vehicles, are not statistically significant (i.e. do not meet a 95% confidence level).

Its maiden flight was on June 23 and the first few flights were no longer than 10 seconds.

She made it through security without problems the first few flights, until one trip she was stopped in the security line.

The first few flights to arrive after the disaster – from Denmark, Dubai and India – brought in high energy biscuits, plastic sheeting and blankets.

I was so scared during my first few flight lessons that I literally threw up into a sick sack.

NASA plans to select at least two companies this summer for final contracts that will include the last stages of development, certification and the first few operational flights.

Solid rocket motors are most often used as strap-ons to the liquid-fueled first stage of a launch vehicle to provide additional thrust during liftoff and the first few minutes of flight.

There are usually preset rules with respect to what weather conditions are acceptable for a space launch, including winds at the launch site and aloft, visibility (for monitoring the vehicle during the first few minutes of flight), and temperature.

It upsets your senses of balance and co-ordination, making it more difficult for crew members to track moving targets, creating illusions of motion and, for the first few days of flight, generally making them feel pretty queasy.