Sentence examples for on sorties from inspiring English sources

Current policy allows a flight surgeon to dispense "go pills" on sorties over 8 hours in a single-pilot fighter or 12 hours in a two-pilot bomber, said Betty Anne Mauger, spokeswoman for the Air Force surgeon general.

As well as the hotline, Netanyahu, has made trips to Moscow to seek to convince Putin not to supply the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, with Russian-made anti-aircraft defences that might endanger Israeli jets on sorties.

In particular, after the Kosovo war in 1999 – when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's "red-green" government agreed to send German Tornados on sorties as part of the Nato military intervention – it looked as if Germany was converging with France and the UK.

At a hitherto unknown American helicopter base at Pul-i-Kandahar, on the desert floor about 20 miles west of Kabul, reporters watched as up to 15 Chinook transport helicopters, as well as Apache and Cobra attack craft, took off in clouds of dust on sorties of about 50 miles south to Shah-i-Kot.

It is Connolly who introduces Small to the search for ancient civilisations, leading him on sorties into Guatemala to seek out minor ruins, while talking continually of the legendary lost city of La Joya, now vanished into the land, its vast wealth left undiscovered by repeated waves of invaders and explorers.

"It's not sharing any secret to note that the longer distances required on sorties to northern Syria from the Gulf as opposed to Incirlik puts an added strain on pilots, airframes, and maintenance crews.

Prudent use of worst-case scenarios may impose unacceptable constraints on shielding mass for spacecraft or habitats, tours of duty of crews on Space Station, and on the radius and duration of sorties on planetary surfaces.

After the Italians retreated and surrendered, the Rhodesian squadron moved forward to Asmara on 6 April, whence it embarked on bombing sorties on the port of Massawa.

Between 1941 and 1943 Twiss served on catapult ships – where Hawker Hurricanes, on one-way sorties, were rocketed off merchant ships to intercept Luftwaffe long-range reconnaissance bombers.

The three Australian squadrons assigned to Coastal Command flew only a small number of sorties on 6 June as few German submarines or E-boats put to sea.

Future concept for a Pressurised Rover designed by the LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) to transport a crew of four astronauts on long-distance sorties on Moon and Mars; the Rover was named RAMA (Rover for Advanced Mission Applications) as a tribute to Arthur Clarke's "Rama Chronicles".