Sentence examples for mock plane from inspiring English sources

The sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), often called sycamore, plane, or mock plane, is distinct (see maple).

The sycamore maple, or mock plane (Acer pseudoplatanus), is sometimes also called, simply, sycamore.

Reuters, Moscow Too real Indian aviation officials staged a mock plane crash at New Delhi international airport yesterday, causing at least one TV station to tell viewers that nine people might have died in an airliner disaster.

There are mock airstrips with planes parked nearby, mock industrial yards and surface-to-air missile sites.

The picture, showing employees beneath a full-scale mock-up of the plane, was by Alain Ernoult.

A crowd of thousands craned their necks and held on to their hats as fighter planes staged mock battles against an overcast sky and an armada of bombers thundered past.

U.S. Mock Disaster Drill: Trains, Planes and Bloggers [News Factor].

It is telling that Sweden's semi-neutrality did not prevent Russian bombers last year from staging a mock attack (it was NATO planes, not Swedish ones, that scrambled to meet them).

In Mexico, the personal secretary of President Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted a photoshopped image depicting the "Honduran team" traveling atop a plane to Brazil, mocking the tens of thousands of Central American migrants who cross Mexico annually on top of dangerous freight trains.

She also watched police squads stage a mock rescue of a hijacked passenger plane.

(The arrivals and departures of pandemics are listed like plane flights — and flights, as a mock-up of a plane's cabin suggests, really are potential incubators of communicable disease).