Sentence examples for the first jet from inspiring English sources

This irked the Europeans, who took pride in the fact their continent had invented the first jet engine, the first jet airliner and the first supersonic airliner.

Their last contract was signed in 1994, one year after the first jet was introduced.

Firefighters and police officers who raced to the scene after the first jet crashed.

The first jet engine was created in a laboratory in Rugby, England, by Frank Whittle.

The concept of an MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory was formulated not long after the first jet engines were successfully run.

The roar of the first jet this afternoon prompted reflexive fears of an enemy attack on this rebel-held territory.

The T-37, which first entered service in 1957, is the first jet trainer student pilots learn to fly.

The first jet was crippled in late August by Mr. Marouf using a 14.5-millimeter machine gun mounted on a truck bed, several fighters said.

Germany and Britain were concurrently developing the jet engine, but it was a German Heinkel He 178 that made the first jet flight on Aug. 27, 1939.

In 1977 he led the first jet boat expedition up the Ganges River and continued by climbing to its source in the Himalayas.

The plane that the colonel piloted, a Boeing 707 known as the "Spirit of '76," was the first jet to serve as Air Force One.