Sentence examples for sophisticated flying from inspiring English sources

They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated — flying cars, self-cleaning windows.

Not only did evolution come up with such sophisticated flying adaptations only 10 million years after the first known insect flight, but it also engineered them at least twice, because the fossilized specimen is not a direct ancestor of modern dragonflies.

The evidence pool is being polluted by an ever-increasing presence of small, sophisticated flying machines that are totally terrestrial in origin.

Defense analysts suspect that China's People's Liberation Army reaped substantial intelligence from the hobbled EP-3, a sophisticated flying eavesdropper outfitted with equipment capable of intercepting fax and e-mail transmissions.

The question of drone strikes gets a little trickier -- since today's sophisticated flying death robots weren't around in the 1980s, But I think it's pretty clear where Reagan would have come down on both the "shock and awe" laid down on Iraq during the Bush years and on the expansion of drone strikes -- and the collateral damage that comes with them -- under President Obama.

While the spaces can cater to elite flyers who want sophisticated flying spaces or a practice arena close to home, they also represent a point of entry for newbies.

According to CNN, the CIA Sentinel drone that crashed in Iran in 2011 while on a reconnaissance mission of suspected nuclear sites was "one of the United States' most sophisticated drones," capable of flying at up to 50,000 feet and "designed to evade sophisticated air defenses".

Today, much more sophisticated pilotless drones are flying over Afghanistan, including two RQ-1 Predator aircraft equipped with Hellfire antitank missiles.

When the commercial satellite industry developed in the 1990s, it could not compete with the highly sophisticated sensing equipment flown by the government's spy satellites.

The contract could pave the way for other foreign sales of the Block 60 aircraft -- an F-16 more sophisticated than versions flown by the Air Force.

A computerized system keeps track of the positions, weights and reach of all the cranes on the site, and engineers are using sophisticated detection systems flown on planes and helicopters to keep track of everything from the warmth of the ground to its changing topography.