Sentence examples for powered airplane from inspiring English sources

This perfect control made their gliding safe and allowed them to proceed to the powered airplane.

Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk commemorates the first powered airplane flight.

Wright flyer of 1905, third powered airplane designed, built, and flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Wright flyer of 1903, first powered airplane to demonstrate sustained flight under the full control of the pilot.

In Santa Ana, Calif., before World War I, Martin designed his first powered airplane and leased an abandoned church as his first factory.

Immediately south at Kill Devil Hills is Wright Brothers National Memorial (1927; see photograph), commemorating the flight there of Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17 , 1903 the first powered airplane flight in the United States (see photograph).

Alexander Graham Bell, one of the founders of the AEA, gave the third and most famous of the powered airplanes constructed by the group the name June Bug because of the beetles that filled the air on its first flight, in June 1908.

Stunt flying may be performed by one or more pilots at the same time and with almost any kind of flying craft (including parachutes and gliders, as well as the more usual powered airplanes).

Solar powered airplanes have the advantage of being lightweight in comparison to battery-powered planes.

The advent of the turbine-powered airplane dramatically changed the air transportation industry.

This engine was successfully tested in the world's first jet-powered airplane flight on Aug. 27, 1939.