Sentence examples for flight station from inspiring English sources

Later that year, he transferred to Naca's high-speed flight station (today, Nasa's Dryden flight research centre) at Edwards Air Force Base in California as an aeronautical research scientist, and then as a pilot.

This is a flight station that briefs you and gets you ready to go.

Inglis had close contacts with industry and was able to establish a professorship in aeronautical engineering and links with a nearby Air Ministry experimental flight station.

After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights.

I dashed back to the flight attendants' station and whimpered.

Pilots can monitor cabin temperatures from the cockpit, and/or a call from a flight attendants station -- "It's getting really hot back here and people are upset; can you do something?

Officials said a pilot called the F.A.A.'s flight service station in Burlington, Vt., to check the weather conditions on his flight path in upstate New York because he planned to continue his duck observations.

At the National Association of Air Traffic Specialists, which represents the flight service station controllers, Darrell Mounts, a regional director in Denver, said that at a recent meeting of private pilots, his group had collected more than 1,000 signatures for a petition opposing privatization.

One of the crash survivors used a cellphone to contact a person in Texas who had something to do with the operation of the plane, Mr. Peters said, and that person called the F.A.A.'s flight service station in Leesburg, Va.

By the end of the flight, the station felt like a city bar at happy hour, with passengers drifting to the back to swap airline stories, complain about their jobs, and even swap phone numbers.

It mandates airlines to communicate with the aerodrome control tower or flight service station prior to departure.