Sentence examples for towed practice from inspiring English sources

They also instructed Air Corps pilots and towed practice targets for combat pilots.

Mr. Niebur and Mr. Bue, however, said they were wrongfully fired for cooperating with the F.B.I.'s investigation into the towing practices and into whether town officials had benefited from the lucrative business of towing cars.

So he meets Captain, a range engine that towed targets for shooting practice in the second world war.

Set the cargo you need to haul on your makeshift trailer, and find a safe place to practice towing it.

WASPs also towed targets for aerial gunnery practice.

They performed duties formerly done by men: some ferried new planes to their destinations, others towed targets for aerial gunnery practice, still others were flight instructors.

He refused to comment on reports that the navy had towed boats back to Indonesia, a practice that he appeared to rule out in October.

The captain and the Greek operator, acting for Mare Shipping, nominally Liberian but in practice Greek, thought it should be towed into a Spanish port.

On 6 July 1948, she was towed out to sea and used as target practice, and was sunk by several naval aircraft and ships.

In 1905, Secretary of the Navy Charles Joseph Bonaparte suggested that she be towed out to sea and used as target practice, after which she would be allowed to sink.

The UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, has voiced concern about "pushbacks", the coastguards' practice of towing migrant boats back into Turkish territorial waters.