Sentence examples for the aircrew from inspiring English sources
noun
A group of two or more trained individuals, formed as a team that operates an aircraft.
- The aircrew ran to the bomber.
The aircrew, the ground staff and their back-up would still be being paid.
The aircrew are often the first on the scene, whether it is a motorway pile-up or someone having a stroke.
Tibbets told the aircrew that everything before had been small potatoes, and that what they proposed to do would shorten the war by six months.
Any whiff of a threat to hold the aircrew "hostage" in an attempt to influence Mr Bush's decision over arms sales would backfire disastrously.
But in an e-mail message, Mr. Castelveter explained: "Federal air marshals are trained to protect the safety and integrity of the aircrew, passengers and aircraft.
Members of the aircrew are played by actual stewardesses and pilots, and several key figures at the civil and military control centres are played by the real people concerned.
Higher headquarters, notified by MSF within 11 minutes of the first wave of firing that its hospital was under attack, did not realize the aircrew was hitting the hospital until it was "too late", the report found.
A month before, in his state of the union address, President Bush had denounced Reid and hailed the aircrew who overpowered him as he fumbled with matches, attempting to light his shoe-bomb.
As it happens, Maynard had been "on a resupply mission to guerilla troops," the Pentagon said: Once cleared for takeoff, there was no further communication between the aircrew and airfield operators.
The airmen found the defences and geography at Kaafjord to be very similar to the Loch Eriboll training range, and one of the post-attack reports stated that the operation had been "almost an exercise which they [the aircrew] had frequently carried out before".
An increasing number of experimental and commercial robot systems base their research and development entirely or partially upon robot operating systems, even including examples like the Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) [12] and Robonaut 2 [13], which requires very high real-time performance and reliability.
