Sentence examples for refuelling aircraft from inspiring English sources
£13.9bn will be allocated to a fleet of air-to-air refuelling aircraft, and transport planes, including,the European A400M.
"The raid involved two dozen Delta Force commandos, several Black Hawk helicopters, gunships, Predator drones, F18 Hornet Jets and refuelling aircraft.
Initially, their government had requested help in refuelling aircraft, and the U.S. had responded by asking France to repay its costs, of about seventeen million dollars.
"Pyramid One-One are you on this frequency?" bellows another American.Unplug the radio and, from cruising altitude aboard an American refuelling aircraft, Afghanistan's border with Pakistan seems calm.
In January a squadron of A-10 "Warthog" ground-attack jets was redeployed to Afghanistan, reportedly leaving only refuelling aircraft at the base.
But the news that an Airbus A330 refuelling aircraft will be refitted for the purpose as a money-saving exercise was met with derision by the commercial airline business.
Explain that to the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, expelled so that Britain could establish its "Indian Ocean territory" and allow the US to build a base on the archipelago's biggest island, Diego Garcia, from where aircraft have bombed targets in Iraq and Afghanistan, and refuelled CIA aircraft rendering individuals to Guantánamo Bay.
"What started out as humanitarian relief using existing assets in the Middle East was rapidly transformed into boots on the ground in a training role, and aircraft both flying combat missions and refuelling other coalition aircraft for combat missions in Syria.
There are three types of VC10 aircraft, which are principally used as tankers for refuelling other RAF aircraft.
The air force is in worse shape than the army or navy, and support aircraft (refuelling planes and so on) are in worse shape than fighters and bombers.
There has already been significant research in position tracking, rendezvous scheduling, apparatus modelling, wake effects, and vision-based sensors to support refuelling of unmanned systems and to increase the autonomy in manned aircraft refuelling.
