Sentence examples for flying gas from inspiring English sources

The tankers are like flying gas stations.

A KC-135 tanker, a flying gas station, had to be prepared for the mission, as did F-16CJ anti-radar and EA-6B radar-jamming planes.

Both companies have a lot at stake, especially since the contract for the planes, which are essentially flying gas cans, could later be extended to $100 billion even if military spending falls.

The Air Force owns both of these flying gas stations.

Strapping your character to a flying gas tank, or beating pedestrians to death with a gigantic flopping dildo, are not.

The crew calls their Stratotanker a "flying gas station".A dozen of these sorties depart daily from the Manas airbase outside Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, accounting for about 30% of all refuelling missions over Afghanistan.

He says that American Airlines management should have been buying new airplanes well before the bankruptcy in order to keep pace with the competition rather than flying gas-guzzling planes like the MD-80.

He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, flying aviation gas from India to China.

Aileen Vining, a travel agent in Joplin, Mo., said: "If there are only two or at the most three people traveling together, they'll give a lot of thought to flying, because gas prices are so high around here.

TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 14 — When Georgia's short democratic experiment seemed near collapse last week amid a commotion of flying tear gas canisters, rocks and rubber bullets, the nation's leaders, their opponents and the Georgian people looked to Patriarch Ilia II, the leader of Georgia's Orthodox Church.

Stun grenades, tear gas, flying rocks and a dispute over land – the scene might be familiar, but the players are less so.