6 sentences with 'aviation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word aviation and other words derived from it.
• « It told how eight servicemen - including Eddie Rickenbacker, a World War I aviation ace who, as a fighter pilot, shot down a large number of enemy planes - embarked in three tiny life rafts, carrying no water and only four little oranges for all their food. »
• « Knut Sanderud, a 74-year-old Norwegian surgeon based in Larvik, has led a very active life. Suffice it to say that he was a specialist in aviation medicine in his country's army, and although he is now retired, he has not slowed down: he has been to poor villages, such as Lokichokio in Kenya, ten times on behalf of the Doctors' Bank. »
• « Tim Lancaster still marvels that he survived such an ordeal, unique in aviation history. "I must be the luckiest man in the world," he concludes. »
• « When Darwin created his theory of evolution, he did not imagine that at the end of the 20th century, the notion of mutation would be used for an aircraft. Curiously, this new hybrid specimen of aviation, named after an animal: Osprey, is considered to be a true mutation of the classic helicopter. »
• « The aviation war for the remainder of the 20th century has a clear winner: X-30 is its name and it could be the father of a generation of "rocket planes" that will make possible everything from military missions to a probable trip to a space station from any airport in the world. »
• « The initial letter "X" for the NASP experimental model is the acronym for all experimental air vehicles. The direct predecessor of the X-30 is the X-15, but there were many other experimental models before it in the history of aviation. »