Aircraft in sentence

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I work on aircraft for Airbus, I do all this sort of stuff trying to force these natural, inspired-by-nature dreams home.

So like an aircraft or a car, the reusability is rapid and complete.

You do not send your aircraft to Boeing in-between flights.

We had one government agency and one company aircraft operator say, you're crazy, don't do that, you're going kill the guy.

And what you look at is an aircraft carrier that's performance-driven by the cone vision of these satellite dishes.

And those are just the odds, thank you. (Laughter) The reality is that the US government crashed a 1.4-billion-dollar aircraft because the maintenance crew only did 99 percent of their job.

And in 2014 we created Zipline, which is a company that uses electric autonomous aircraft to deliver medicine to hospitals and health centers on demand.

This is basically a combination of an aircraft carrier and a bouncy castle.

Many of you could ask the question, you know, why is a flying car, or maybe more accurately, a roadable aircraft, possible at this time?

The FAA, the controlling body above all, calls it a "powered lift aircraft."

It's kind of remarkable when you consider that there are no operational powered lift aircraft.

I'd prefer to quote someone else, who testified with me before Congress, and in his position as head of NASA put forward this particular vision of the future of this type of aircraft.

This is clearly, as I said earlier, a roadable aircraft, and you're not going to spend that much time on the road.

A vertical-takeoff aircraft is not the safest vehicle during the test flight program.

There's an old adage that applied for the years between 1950s and 1970s, when every aeronautical company was working on vertical-takeoff aircraft.

If that single-stability system, that brain that flies that aircraft, fails, or if the engine fails, that vehicle crashes.

And the adage that I'm referring to, that applied at that time, was that nothing comes down faster than a VTOL aircraft upside down.

In fact, the aircraft companies gave up on vertical-takeoff aircraft more or less for a number of years.

A vertical-takeoff aircraft, like the hummingbird, has a very high metabolism, which means it requires a lot of energy.

It was almost in New York, and then there was a tremendous explosion from the right wing of the aircraft, and the captain's voice came over the speaker, and he said, (with German accent) "Ladies and gentlemen, please, we have a problem with the number three engine on the right wing of the aircraft.

Please do not panic, we have four engines on this aircraft.

We have... (explosion sound) We also now have a problem with the number one engine, but we have two very good... (explosion sound) We have one engine, but I assure you the pilot is most capable of flying the aircraft with only... (explosion sound) Ladies and gentlemen, we're about to make a landing on the water.

All those of you who can swim, please line up on the right wing of the aircraft.

All those of you who cannot swim, line up on the left wing of the aircraft, and I will speak to you from the water."

So they do everything he says, and they see finally a little captain in a rubber boat rowing to the front of the aircraft, and he has a loudspeaker, and he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, again, I congratulate you for following my instructions.

First, those of you on the right wing of the aircraft, New York is this way.

Those of you on the left wing of the aircraft, 'Thank you for flying Lufthansa.'"

Now Drake did not discover extraterrestrial intelligence, but he learned a very valuable lesson from a passing aircraft, and that's that terrestrial technology can interfere with the search for extraterrestrial technology.

In 1943 Allied aircraft swooped over Nazi Germany, raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below.

Thirty years later, you'd be seeing jet aircraft.

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