Sentence examples for hostile plane from inspiring English sources

When I finally caught up with the painting, C. R. W. Nevinson's "Swooping Down on a Hostile Plane," in the Imperial War Museum in London in the 1990s, it felt like the fulfillment of an accidental 20-year pilgrimage.

So, when war came in September 1939, Great Britain had a warning chain of radar stations that could tell when hostile planes were approaching.

"Evidence indicates that one of the hostile planes was hit while the rest were forced to flee to their bases in Turkey," a spokesman said.

Even the ISIL victory parade in central Ramadi proceeded at a stately pace unperturbed by hostile planes.

For their part, Americans were afraid of hostile European planes flying over their homeland, perhaps to drop bombs rather than passengers.

"Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile U.S. surveillance plane in northern Latakia," SANA said in a bulletin, without giving further details.

Yet the alliance is still short on reconnaissance planes to identify hostile targets and refueling planes to allow fighter-bombers to conduct longer missions, a senior NATO diplomat said.

Trump doesn't seem to understand that, in war, the troops who are deployed in, or, as McCain was, sent in a plane over hostile territory and shot down don't really get to decide whether they are captured.