Sentence examples for groups of aircraft from inspiring English sources

For the uninitiated the phrase is thought to hark back to the second world war when Douglas Bader introduced the tactic of using large groups of aircraft from several fighter squadrons to meet the Luftwaffe with extreme force.

A Nato statement said four groups of aircraft, including Tu-95 Bear bombers and MiG-31 fighters, were tracked over seas and the Atlantic Ocean.

During the Pacific War the US Navy's fast battleships were mainly used to escort the groups of aircraft carriers which formed the United States Pacific Fleet's main striking force.

Because the increase in precision means that fewer bombs are needed to dispose of a single target, he says the same group of aircraft could now hit 700 targets.

Nevertheless, the initial group of aircraft was completed by October 1939.

West of the city, a smaller group of aircraft icons fly in circles, a pattern the U.S. military calls "doughnuts," tracking vehicles on the roads to Syria.

Takagi and Hara determined to attack immediately with a select group of aircraft, minus fighter escort, even though it meant the strike would return after dark.

Another thing that we need to work on when we have a big group of ships and a big group of aircraft is how to build an operational plan to support what the situation is giving us.

On October 11, Hagerstrom led one of two groups of four aircraft to intercept an approaching Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft over Finschhafen.

The fighter group would be split into two groups of eight aircraft for their respective patrol altitudes.

Inoue's staff directed two groups of attack aircraft from Rabaul, already airborne since that morning, towards Crace's reported position.