Sentence examples for planes to replace from inspiring English sources
Northwest Airlines, Eagan, Minn., said it had ordered eight Airbus SAS A330 planes to replace Boeing DC-10's in its fleet in 2006 and 2007.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, took delivery during the summer of two new Airbus A319 planes to replace two 20-year old Airbus A310 planes — previously operated by the East German carrier Interflug — that had been prone to embarrassing breakdowns.
Qantas finalised a deal to buy the 787-9 planes to replace its ageing 747 fleet last year and the first new planes are scheduled for delivery in 2017.
He's betting Alice's low operating costs will motivate fleet operators of small planes to replace decades-old Cessna Caravans or Beechcraft King Airs.
That design was accompanied by plans for a 350-passenger H "hybrid wing body " plane to replace the 777-class aircraft commonly used for international flights.
One group, looking tried and sober, is heading for a plane, going home after their months-long tour; the other, a few feet away, is getting off the plane to replace them.
Mr. McNerney also said for the first time that "on balance" Boeing's customers were "sort of pushing us" toward building a new plane to replace the 737 rather than just buying more fuel-efficient engines to battle foreign competitors.
He had proposed programs to develop nuclear engines for propelling and powering deep space missions, and revealed plans for an orbital space plane to replace the shuttle in some jobs, like delivering crews to the International Space Station.
Joseph March, said the service had not yet decided how it would meet its need for a plane to replace the P-3, which went into service nearly 30 years ago.
After the bugs are taken out of the 787, Boeing will get to work on a next-generation narrow-body plane to replace the 737.
The Navy has awarded the Boeing a $3.89 billion contract to develop a long-range patrol plane to replace an aircraft that once was the sea service's main submarine hunter, the Pentagon announced Monday.
