Sentence examples for leading airplane from inspiring English sources

The economic crisis for the nation's air travel industry continues to spread as Boeing, the nation's leading airplane builder, announced 30,000 layoffs and airline executives secured assurances of billions of dollars in financial help from Congress and the Bush administration.

He made a head-on dive toward the formation, which was attempting to gain altitude, and downed the leading airplane with four machine gun bursts.

During World War II it was one of the leading airplane manufacturers in the United States; its production included the B-24 Liberator bomber and PB4Y flying boat.

But, he told reporters, "If you want to be the world's leading airline, which is what we at United are working for, you've got to have the world's leading airplane".

The first Martin bomber, designated the MB, appeared in 1918 19, too late for active use in World War I, but its success in the hands of Colonel "Billy Mitchelll established Martin as one of the leading military airplane manufacturers of the United States.

Today, I turned to one of the world's leading authorities on airplane crash statistics.

"A bomb was smuggled onto the airplane, leading to the deaths of 219 Russians and five other crusaders only a month after Russia's thoughtless decision," IS said.

A Federal Aviation Administration inspector confirmed that the object was part of the leading edge of an airplane wing.

In this study, smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) method is used for simulating the bird strike to an airplane wing leading edge structure.

In order to verify the model, first, experiment of bird strike to a flat aluminum plate is simulated, and then bird impact on an airplane wing leading edge structure is investigated.

"This condition, if not detected, could ultimately result in uncontained engine failure potentially leading to damage to the airplane and hazards to persons or property on the ground," said the agency's directive, which was posted on its Web site.