Sentence examples for jet carrier from inspiring English sources

The first full jet carrier was USS Forrestal, commissioned in 1955.

That reliability means a lot in a state where air travel is often the only option, and where Alaska is the only commercial jet carrier with in-state routes.

A carrier equipped with these V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) jets could be much smaller than a full jet carrier, because it would need neither catapults nor arresting gear.

Since then, the new operators have persuaded General Electric to build a new hangar, supported plans for a new highway interchange off Interstate 84, and worked hard to lure a low-cost jet carrier like Southwest.

In February, VistaJet, the largest European private jet carrier, partnered with Bird Group, an Indian travel conglomerate, to enter the Indian market, offering membership card deals allowing the flexible bulk purchase of 25 hours or more of flight time.

Now it has 95 flights daily out of four Sunshine State airports, and it has become Florida's largest intrastate jet carrier.

And its fundamental design — novel wings with engine "pods" positioned underneath — became the standard for almost all commercial jet carriers.

In order to carry out these roles, jet carriers have become so huge that only a first-rate power can afford to build and operate them.

And professionally operated small jets have a better accident rate than U.S. scheduled jet carriers.

By 1955 the modern jet aircraft carrier had emerged, with steam catapults, an angled deck, and a mirror landing system.

Buying kit is so expensive and takes so long that spending is out of kilter with current needs: most money now goes on fighter jets, aircraft carriers and submarines, which are of little use in Afghanistan.