Sentence examples for test aircraft from inspiring English sources

One test aircraft leaked fuel.

Today, the Marine Corps has only eight in its fleet, all of them test aircraft.

The MOD is currently working with Parliament to obtain approval for the purchase the second test aircraft by December 2009.

The test aircraft, based in Seville and in Toulouse, France, will fly a total 3,700 flight test hours.

Herding hundreds of stand-in passengers into a test aircraft for days on end was hardly practical.

This is the Mojave desert, offering few attractions to the casual visitor but the perfect environment in which to test aircraft.

The problem, which Airbus says it has since fixed, required that workers drill holes in the first five wings — including those for the first flight-test aircraft — by hand, adding €124 million to the A350's development bill and pushing back the first deliveries to the second half of 2014.

Irish Museum Of Modern Art, to 21 Sep RC Farnborough's wind tunnels have been testing aircraft since 1917.

THE HISTORY Pan American tested aircraft at a seaplane factory in the early 1900s, establishing an international airline from the waters of Manhasset Bay.

Heathrow started life in 1930 after British aero-engineer and plane builder Richard Fairey paid the vicar of Harmondsworth £15,000 for a 60-hectare (150-acre) plot to build a private airport for assembling and testing aircraft.

Riverhead's problem was considerably larger: how to fill the void left in 1996 when the Grumman Corporation vacated the 2,900-acre 2,900-acreute 25 in Calverton where it tesite aircraft fon the Navy.