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How to use the word Aircraft in a Sentence?

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This is in the infrared, this is the heat signature off the engines in a commuter aircraft that happened to be flying in the vicinity of where those two MQ9s were at.

– Sean Kirkpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even though United States does not have troops on the ground in Ukraine, it has been able to tell the Ukrainian military where to fire their weapons by sending signals from its electronic warfare aircraft, we need to make sure we have the necessary equipment to link with United States military systems at times of war.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They took out the seats, the carpets, the panels – basically everything in the aircraft that they could strip at that point, they did, but once again, unfortunately with no success.

– Rudolf Erasmus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We measure snowpack wall-to-wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack and also how fast it’s going to melt. That’s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west.

– Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Customers are being reaccommodated on a new aircraft and we apologize for the inconvenience and delay in their travel plans.

– The FAA

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1 year ago

Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery, in particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country.

– Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The 787 is a very new aircraft and it’s probably hard for people outside of aviation to get their head around this, they were coming up to their 12-year check, the heaviest maintenance event that’s going to happen on these aircraft.

– Lee Carey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These particular aircraft already had the engines removed a couple of weeks ago, we then commenced the defueling operation to ensure that any hazardous fuels were removed and disposed of correctly.

– Lee Carey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our preliminary information at this point is that neither airplane had any kind of avoidance system radar that would have alerted them to the other aircraft.

– Lynn Spencer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Learjet pilot read back the instructions clearly but began a takeoff roll instead, the pilot of the JetBlue aircraft took evasive action and initiated a climb-out as the Learjet crossed the intersection.

– The FAA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We began designing this aircraft cabin five years ago, working with Airbus and Qantas to maximize space, as well as creating a tailored lighting program that will influence mood and sleep patterns, all the design and service elements will work together to significantly improve inflight comfort, convenience and health and well-being and help minimize the old nemesis of jetlag.

– David Caon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No one apart from a Saudi head of state is going to want a private, four-engine business jet, you can’t convert just one aircraft to cargo, and nobody wants a passenger version. As a consequence, the parts and especially the engines, are worth far more than the airplane.

– Richard Aboulafia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ten were built in total, and this is the first one retired, it’s not transparent who exactly is buying them, but it’s a very, very large private aircraft and the only operators or buyers tend to be governments and royal families.

– Connor Diver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russians have air power or they have essentially power that they can employ through the air. And I think this is what’s missing for the Ukrainians, i think we need to provide the Ukrainians with aircraft so that they can provide cover for their troops on the ground.

– Evelyn Farkas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are incredibly complex aircraft, particularly from a software point of view, and they are designed and built in a very different way from the MIG-29 and Sukhoi-27 aircraft that Ukrainian technicians, who are extremely skilled, are used to operating and maintaining.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With an aircraft United States can actually, as a matter of speaking, fly to Moscow and bomb the Kremlin. I do n’t think the Ukrainians will do that, but there’s a risk involved, and that may actually lead to an escalation that we are not really willing to accept.

– Peter Wijninga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t run an airline like it’s 2019, and the reason is because the system is just stressed to the max, there’s strains everywhere, whether it’s in security or FAA staffing or systems. Across the board there are strains in the system, aircraft manufacturers delivering, having enough pilots and all of those stresses and strains means that the system is tighter.

– Scott Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity, we continue to assess that this may result from a collection bias due to the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with focused attention and guidance to report anomalies.

– The Thursday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Such a dangerous approaching maneuver seriously affected the flight safety of the Chinese military aircraft.

– Southern Theater Command

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Flying aircraft close to each other at 500 miles per hour with unfriendly intentions is generally unsafe, at that range, an unexpected maneuver or an equipment issue can cause a terrible accident in under a second.

– Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The 135 is an unarmed aircraft. Why does the PLAN consider it necessary to intercept carrying missiles when the intent was to visually identify the aircraft? Doing this is potentially dangerous and could lead to a major and tragic incident.

– Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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