Sentence examples for on one engine from inspiring English sources

Nothing focuses the mind more than trying to land a 777 on one engine on short notice.

Daly said he was puzzled because the aircraft should have been able to pull away on one engine.

In November 1942, having been injured by anti-aircraft fire over northern Holland, he flew the damaged aircraft back, on one engine.

While the plane can fly on one engine, an engine that broke up could destroy the hydraulic systems, which are essential to flight.

For about 20 years, from when Man Group ditched sugar trading to concentrate on hedge funds, the company ran on one engine.

Flying on one engine, he was barely able to maintain adequate speed and altitude, then ditched off the tiny Allied-occupied island of Kiriwana in the Solomon Sea.

When possible, airplanes taxi to the runway on just one engine, not two, and the airline is reducing the amount of reserve fuel that is loaded onto a plane in case it needs to circle an airport or is diverted in bad weather.

The Air Force said that one engine on the four-engine C-17 exploded because of "hostile action," but has not confirmed that it was a missile.

(Air New Zealand flew a four-engine Boeing 747 last week with one engine on a 50percentt biofuel mix, and Japan Airlines will do the same in a few weeks as part of a series of tests including the flight on Wednesday).

The plane diverted to Athens with one engine on idle, but as he came into land, Rackham increased the power of that engine, which proved to be a lifesaving action.

"While one engine on the Viking Sky was soon restored, the storms made the lack of propulsion especially dire," Mr English says.