Sentence examples for man the controls from inspiring English sources

In imagining ourselves on the 9/11 flights, we are all, whether we huddle in the back of the plane, gallop down the aisle or, like Amis, proudly man the controls, speculating about what it will be like to die.

Despite being twice the age of a Klaxon, Hyde spends an hour and a half boinging about the place on this first of three sold-out nights at the Roundhouse, while Rick Smith and ancillary gearhound Darren Price man the controls.

Slideshow: Staffers near Champaign, IL, man the control center during Alpha's launch.

H. L. Young, commander of Enterprise air group, attempted to man the control tower to provide communications between the island, Enterprise, and the planes.

Man the control box to start stimulating ejaculation of the bull.

Daddy's work was always the fulcrum, while Mum — cheerfully, giddily, perilously — manned the controls.

Peel gleefully manned the controls at an all-night session after he finished his show.

The two-seat biplane carries one passenger in the front cockpit, while an experienced licensed pilot mans the controls in the rear cockpit.

From inside a cockpit tucked in the rafters of a cavernous building, he manned the controls, guiding a 350-ton ladle that spilled molten iron.

AS the time neared 3 o'clock one Monday afternoon this summer, Joe Ferraro in all his guises manned the controls of WHVW-AM.

The first time I went down to watch the process, a glaciologist from Iceland and another from Germany were manning the controls.