Sentence examples for port wing from inspiring English sources
The aircraft shot at me, I ducked, but it had hit my port wing.
A Routemaster bus was parked beneath the port wing, a reminder that Britain could do mass transit well; the model is still shuttling between the City and Kensington, and providing a transportational backbone in Commonwealth countries such as Sri Lanka and the Falklands.
Its port wing snapped off.
The strike knocked out the plane's instruments and started a fire on the port wing.
The aircraft flipped over, losing its port wing in the process.
His Mosquito was hit in the port wing and the fuel line were ruptured.
The missile struck the port-side wing, rupturing a fuel tank and causing the loss of all three hydraulic systems.
Then they bolted through the wheelhouse to the left -- or port -- bridge wing as the ship glided into its berth at the next pier, Pier 92, on its left side.
"We'll sail dead downwind," she announced to Mr. Walker and Mr. Prisco, who mounted a spinnaker pole onto the mast to hold the jib out to starboard while the main jibed to port, a set known as wing and wing.
Based at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, the wing was under the control of No. 9 Operational Group, the RAAF's "premier fighting unit" in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA), whose purpose was to act as a mobile strike force in support of advancing Allied troops.
