Sentence examples for hit the wing from inspiring English sources

The sun hit the wing with piercing brilliance.

Falling debris that hit the wing on takeoff?

Q. -- We had heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing.

At the moment that the foam or ice hit the wing, the shuttle was 80 seconds into flight.

The breach of the protective layer may have occurred when debris hit the wing during the shuttle's lift-off on Jan . 16

They said the piece that broke off and hit the wing of the Columbia was probably the old foam, not the new, more trouble-plagued material.

If soapbubbles hit the wings of a fan they burst.

After the lengthy opening sequence, the men dressed as the Titanic's crew members start stripping as soon as they hit the wings to change into their second-class passenger costumes, replacing their officers' caps with bowlers, pulling pin-stripe trousers on over their uniforms.

This meant if the German fighters hit the wings, the bomber was liable to burn.

Film of the experiment, released today, shows that the impact of a piece of foam hitting the wing mock-up caused the leading-edge panel to ripple like the surface of a struck gong.

In recent tests, they have varied the part of the block of foam that hits the wing -- sometimes using a corner and sometimes an edge -- and have found that this makes a substantial difference in the way that the wing panels are damaged.