Sentence examples for tail hook from inspiring English sources

They approach the flight deck at 120 to 130 knots with a tail hook hanging down to catch one of four arresting wires stretched across the deck.

Putting a tail hook on a fly is a bit of a bother, but it helps to hook fish that are striking short.

If the wire is too taut, it could pull the tail hook off or else snap and lash out across the deck, injuring or killing anyone in its path.

If all goes as planned, the plane comes to a halt, the tail hook is raised, and the arresting wire is released and comes snaking back, helped on its way by crew members, who prod it along.

Landing-gear mechanisms are also reinforced, and a tail hook is installed to engage the arresting gear, a system that is also used for land-based heavy military aircraft.

At 1740 GMT on Wednesday, the plane dropped its tail hook which then caught a cable across the carrier deck.

Spitfires were used in the defense of Malta, in North Africa and Italy, and, fitted with tail hooks and strengthened tail sections, as Seafires from Royal Navy aircraft carriers from June 1942.

Hurricanes were equipped with sand filters for service in the North African desert and with tail hooks and strengthened empennages for duty as Sea Hurricane carrier-fighters.

The whale's tail hooks over the rail of a snaking subway track, while the beast itself balances on a stack of three figures teetering on a rope bridge with iffy wood slats (San Luis Rey, anyone?) extending from one side of the waterfall to the other.

Sketch a jagged shape between his ears for hair, and for his tail draw a hook shape with a rounded edge and a curved triangle beside it.

For a tail on the rear hook, I use polar bear hair from a small batch of it that a visiting Canadian biologist gave me several years ago.