Sentence examples for pilot fires from inspiring English sources

The pilot fires; the target is destroyed.

They have persistently refused to admit that their pilot fired on the Korean aircraft.

In an early account, Army officials said the Apache pilot fired because the driver failed to slow down when warning shots were fired as he approached a checkpoint.

He had wanted to be a pilot since he was a kid and his godfather, who had been a Second World War fighter pilot, fired up his young imagination with tales about Spitfires and Hurricanes.

In its defence of their use, MoD officials have argued that they were "direct fire" weapons - in other words a pilot firing them can see the target - and that a single weapon had fewer than 10 "bomblets".

A shadowy Russian organisation claiming to be investigating the MH17 crash has claimed that a Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day the Malaysia Airlines plane went down, killing 298 people.

But the United States has had the capability to blow up satellites since 1985, when an F-15 fighter pilot fired a missile into space that took out an old military observation satellite.

According to the New York Times, it did this in Yemen on November 3. It (or rather, the remote pilot) fired a Hellfire missile and killed Abu Ali, the accused planner of the attack on the USS Cole.

Twenty-five military personnel were killed when a Hurricane fighter pilot fired on spectators during a tactical demo on 13 April 1942 in Imber.

The Austro-Hungarian pilot fired at Tomić with his revolver.

Pilot fire grows to nearly 7,000 acres, shuts down local schools.