Sentence examples for the initial flight from inspiring English sources
The initial flight of a prototype of the first robotic plane designed specifically for combat missions was a success, the military has announced.
Having made several predictions over the years about the timing of the initial flight, Branson is under strict instructions by his employees not to give any further dates.
Vostok, any of a series of manned Soviet spacecraft, the initial flight of which carried the first human being into space.
He estimated the current cost of sending someone to Mars at "around $10bn per person", though it was not clear if he meant using existing rocket systems or on the initial flight of his proposed system.
"I believe this product will prove highly addictive," said Mr. Spurlock (he would not give exact numbers on bookings for either the initial flight or subsequent daily flights to and from London).
The airline added a second flight to Haiti on Wednesday to accommodate the remaining passengers, who had been provided with meals and hotel rooms since the initial flight was canceled Sunday, said Susan Elliott, a Delta spokeswoman.
Most of the initial flights coming in or out were international ones.
Daniel B. Poneman, the deputy secretary of energy, said at a White House briefing on Thursday that preliminary results of the initial flights "are consistent with the recommendations that came down from the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," which led to the 50-mile evacuation guideline given to American expatriates.
The initial flights will be expensive, but the more you can reuse a vehicle, naturally the average flight cost gets cheaper.
By the end of that initial flight, I would be so demonstrably miserable over the demands of the job that they'd fire me, assuming I didn't beat them to the punch by pulling a Slater.
On this initial flight, the cylindrical craft will take about a week slowly raising itself to the station's 220-mile altitude using four aft rocket engines before positioning itself some 1,250 miles away.
