Sentence examples similar to piloting solo from inspiring English sources

Dumb luck actually comes calling via, of all things, a floating container full of children's shoes, which smashes into a boat piloted solo by Robert Redford's grizzled sailor.

As crime lord Dryden Vos says, to deliver the coaxium in time, "You'd need an incredibly fast ship and a brilliant pilot". Solo has solved a problem with the Kessel Run: because space is unimaginably big and the Millennium Falcon is insignificant by comparison, the chances of a small ship colliding with celestial objects such as asteroids is low (probably near zero).

Formation flying became the order of the day, as the practice of fighter pilots soloing into combat dwindled.

Such an enhancement might increase the risk of making mistakes in ways that would be considered an acceptable trade-off for military pilots on solo combat missions, but not for commercial pilots ferrying hundreds of passengers.

Further Questions for Discussion: -Would you be willing to pilot a solo 70-hour flight?

US airline pilots tested solo in Boeing 737 simulators found the workload "unacceptable" even in normal flight conditions, let alone when something went wrong.

Even the pilots flying solo combat missions in Korea or the climber in Solo Faces are claimed by - and depend upon - shared ideas of honour and the lure of romance.

(Congress awarded her honorary Major Wings that she wore with her pearls).* In 1935, she was the first pilot to solo across the Pacific — from Honolulu to Oakland — and to solo non-stop from Los Angeles to Mexico.

Blanche S. Scott is believed to be the first woman to pilot and solo in an airplane in the United States.

This is the single-propeller training plane in which tens of thousands of fighter and bomber pilots first soloed 60 years ago.

Nicole Malachowski, in June 2005, and its first female solo pilot, Capt.