Sentence examples for pilots toward from inspiring English sources

The Air Force is requesting funds to create secure communication systems that will enable Predator ground operators to talk fighter pilots toward their targets.

Because of the jamming, the Syrians GCI controllers could not direct their pilots toward the incoming Israeli aircraft.

At the observation post, an Air Force ground spotter was using an infrared beam visible through night-vision goggles to point the pilot toward the intended target.

Tad Wrona, who had a single chance at saving the lives of 230 passengers when the landing gear went out on the Boeing 767 he was piloting toward Warsaw.

Aboard one Zodiac, Frank Hewetson, a 20-year Greenpeace veteran who in his salad days as a protester scaled the first BP deepwater oil rigs off Scotland, tried to direct his pilot toward the net so that he could throw a daisy chain of sandbags over its floating edge and allow the bluefin to escape.

But the report, which has not yet been made public, also assigns some blame for the bombing to two air traffic controllers who helped guide the F/A-18 pilot toward the observation post and then authorized him to release three 500-pound bombs, the officials said.

Like a shutterbug hunting for a scandal-plagued celebrity, he points the pilot toward a hog farm near the overflowing Trent River in eastern North Carolina.

He went on to earn a bachelor's in astronomy from Harvard, and after serving as Army Air Forces bomber pilot toward the end of World War II, obtained a master's in education from Boston University and a master's in chemistry from Simmons College.

The pilots headed toward the New Jersey airport and on the way, authorities said, they buzzed a Carnival Lines cruise ship.

In the 1950s, according to The Miami Herald, pilots descending toward Miami International Airport resorted to instrument landings when the smoke became too dense.

Forty minutes out of San Jose, the pilots veer toward a thick, black column of smoke on the horizon.