Sentence examples for piloted- from inspiring English sources

The characteristic methodology is that change is first piloted in selected provinces or industries before being rolled out across the island.

These robots, typically launched by foot soldiers with a catapult, slingshot or hand toss, far outnumber their larger kin, which are the size of piloted aeroplanes.Global sales of UAVs this year are expected to increase by more than 10% over last year to exceed $4.7 billion, according to Visiongain, a market-research firm based in London.

UAVs can also be smaller and more agile than piloted craft, executing manoeuvres that might injure or kill a human pilot.A number of new UAV technologies are now being used in anger for the first time.

They plan to construct a full-sized 150-metre piloted prototype, Lucy, over the next three years.

And, while an aerosonde is a lot more expensive than a balloon ($25,000 compared with $200), it is less costly than a piloted plane, and poses no risk to human life.

Now an Australian aeronautical firm, Skylifter, thinks it has found the perfect solution.The company is developing a piloted dirigible capable of carrying loads of up to 150 tonnes over distances as great as 2,000km 1,2400 miles) at a speed of 45 knots (83kph).

Even minor malfunctions can be complicated; the idea of trying to handle a serious emergency from a room thousands of miles away is about the scariest thing I can imagine.But Mr Smith, perhaps because he's a pilot, misses another factor that makes remotely-piloted or unpiloted passenger planes unlikely in the near future: fear.

A French investigative judge wants some of Mr Kagame's senior aides to stand trial for allegedly shooting down a French-piloted aircraft in 1994, carrying the then president of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana.

That hardly describes the remotely-piloted Predator MQ-1 or Reaper MQ-9 aircraft.

Saudi Arabia provides a base for the American-piloted U-2 reconnaissance planes, as well as for the American, French and British aircraft that patrol the skies of southern Iraq.

There is, at least, a bit of room to stretch out on a reclining seat (which also doubles up as a toilet).The flying will be shared by the two men who have set up the project, Bertrand Piccard, who in 1999 co-piloted Orbiter 3, the first balloon to circumnavigate the globe, and André Borschberg, a fighter pilot and engineer.