Sentence examples for small airliner from inspiring English sources

But even a small airliner still contains several tonnes of costly aerospace-grade titanium.

Last year, as part of a military exercise, the pilot of an RAF Tornado fighter remotely flew a small airliner over south-west England (with a pilot on board, just in case).

Logan Airport has been trying since the early 1970's to build a relatively short runway, 5,000 feet, for small airliners.

Small airliners may use the high wing design, with a bulge over the top line of the fuselage so as not to restrict passenger headroom.

Among the smaller airliner makers, Bombardier of Canada has sold more than 100 of its C Series — formally introduced in 2008 and due to come into service in 2013 — of which the largest version, the 130-seat CS300 stretches into seat capacity jealously guarded by Airbus and Boeing.

Mr. Robeson said that tripling the air traffic capacity might be necessary, if point-to-point travel in smaller airliners replaced hub-and-spoke systems.

It is a dozen years since the last passenger jet, a small regional airliner, was assembled in the country.

Like any other flight, the small commuter airliner will respond to instructions from air-traffic controllers, navigate a path and take care to avoid other aircraft.

This model is then used to design tanks for a small regional airliner as well as a large long range transport aircraft.

China already builds some small regional airliners and has announced plans to challenge Boeing and Airbus in the market for big jets by 2020.Elephants do flyIndia is a lot further behind, with some 50m passengers last year (26m on domestic services and 24m on international flights), but traffic has recently been growing at a whopping 30% a year.

The smaller civil airliners, those with 15 100 seats, are generally used as regional or commuter transports and may be either turboprops or jets.