Sentence examples for taking a pilot from inspiring English sources

The Ansari X Prize is an award for the first privately financed team to build and launch a vehicle capable of taking a pilot and two tourists into space twice within two weeks.

Ofqual argues that issues around piloting in the past, including the fact that a pupil taking a pilot exam might end up with a qualification that employers might question, persuaded it against Tattersall's 2009 proposal.

The steamer seems to have endeavored to enter the port without taking a pilot, and the batteries in the forts at Psitalia sought to warn the Kurland of the danger by firing guns as she approached the zone mined at the outbreak of the war with Turkey.

He was taking a pilot's course at Four Force Aviation, near Heathrow Airport, said Frode Iversen, former managing director of the flight school.

"Elisabeth Shue just took a pilot.

Robots will do most of the work, collect all the data, and if we are lucky and smart enough to occasionally take a pilot along, these expeditions will enrich the human condition more than we can imagine.

Tests show that blackouts can last 15 to 20 seconds, and it can take a pilot another 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to recover from an episode of this gravity-induced loss of consciousness, termed G-LOC.

That is too much even for Alvin, the most famous of the world's tiny submersibles, which can take a pilot and two scientists down to a maximum depth of 2.8 miles.

The horror of Troy's fall is counterpointed by the absurdity that accompanies it - never more clearly than in the second play, where Agamemnon, having set sail for Troy, returns home prematurely because the fleet forget to take a pilot and land in the wrong place.

Echoing the $25,000 Orteig Prize that spurred Charles Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic in 1927, the X Prize promises $10 million to the first privately funded group to take a pilot plus the weight equivalent of two passengers to a suborbital height of 100 kilometers, bring him back safely and repeat the feat, using the same vehicle, within two weeks.

Jordan confirmed the capture after the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that IS members took a pilot prisoner after shooting down his plane with an anti-aircraft missile. .