Sentence examples for late aircraft from inspiring English sources

The Midwestern hub, which transported 30.8 million passengers last year, ranked last in three categories: late aircraft, air traffic control and cancellations.

It earns this unenviable title based on delays related to security, late aircraft, the national aviation system, cancellations, carrier problems and weather.

To translate that into time lost, O'Hare flights in 2007 were delayed by a cumulative total of 2.5 million minutes due to a late aircraft.

While we could not quantify the typical delay at each airport, we did rank performance in six different delay categories: security, late aircraft, traffic control, cancellations, carrier problems and weather.

Rolls-Royce of London, which is a separate company from the carmaker owned by BMW, is also developing an engine for Boeing's latest aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner.

Composite materials and advances in avionics allow the latest aircraft designs to pull g-forces, especially extreme lateral acceleration, that would be too much for a pilot to stand.Not all the arguments favour UAS, though.

"Our decision to be a pioneer for this latest aircraft type is further evidence of S.I.A.'s determination to stay ahead of the field in product and service," said the deputy chairman and chief executive of Singapore Airlines, Cheong Choong Kong.

(To be sure, no hedge fund manager has been accused of trying to drag down a jet maker's share price by blowing up its latest aircraft, which is essentially the Bond villain's investment strategy).

With stronger, lighter fan blades, made from Hyfil instead of aluminium alloy or titanium, in a fan-jet's first compressor stage, Rolls-Royce's latest aircraft engine at the time, the RB211, would have had a significant weight-saving advantage and thus better fuel economy over rivals from General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.

On Friday, the Queen will end a week of engagements in Scotland by naming the Royal Navy's latest aircraft carrier, built at Rosyth and shipyards on the River Clyde.

"That is smaller than the Chicago Police Department and the latest aircraft carrier built was $13 billion," Chipman told me.