Sentence examples for like aircraft from inspiring English sources

By the late 1950s, the understanding of how stresses are distributed throughout a load-bearing structure especially in "thin-walled shells" like aircraft wings and fuselages was no longer a black art, but an exact science.

As they do this, you can see smaller, flashing lights on each of them -- they look almost like aircraft on a landing trajectory to an airport.

Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares.

Dotted about the city are several blue-roofed halls, a bit like aircraft hangars.

Cockpit indicators clearly display target airspeed, which is based in part on factors like aircraft weight.

Lost in this analogy is the fact that capital assets like aircraft depreciate over time.

But in the 41st minute, a small drone-like aircraft began to buzz around the stadium.

It's like telling someone who wrote a novel about a Spruce Goose-like aircraft to climb aboard and get ready for the ride of his life.

The new LDSD is far from the first attempt by earthlings to construct a flying saucer-like aircraft.

Originally designed as a fighter-like aircraft capable of very high speeds and altitudes, the project was repeatedly scaled back over time and the U.S. Air Force eventually abandoned it.

A historic archive documenting Alexander Graham Bell's attempt in the early 1900s to build a kite-like aircraft that would allow humans to fly was pulled back from an auctioneer's gavel in Westlake Village on Wednesday.