Sentences with phrase «fighter pilots on»

This, combined with the central seat and the wide canopy, conjures a sense of being a fighter pilot on a low - level canyon run.

A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter.A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity.Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a seventy - year - old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known.

Not exact matches

IAG said on Thursday it had bought a 4.61 percent stake in Norwegian as a platform for starting talks, and that could lead to it making a full offer for the airline founded by former fighter pilot Bjorn Kjos.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

On my visit, I «fly» an F - 16 and take a tour to see how the company is using VR to train pilots of the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F - 35 Lightning II.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

Neeb: Flawless Execution is born from and based on the techniques of elite military teams — fighter pilots, navy seals — but we invented its [application to the] business process.

Therefore, it gives an idea of the g - forces on André Brännström, Saab test pilot, as he performs extreme aerobatics with the JAS - 39 Gripen C light single - engine multirole fighter aircraft.

Moscow, SANA - A Russian fighter plane has crashed off the coast of Jableh City in Lattakia, killing two pilots on board, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.

For anyone awake early enough on a Midwest Sunday morning, TV programming would often start with Air Force fighter jet footage set to «The Pilot's Prayer» by John Gillespie Magee:

Two years after the war, as a Navy test pilot, his P - 80 Shooting Star fighter jet would crash on takeoff in a Panamanian jungle, costing him both arms.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Mashall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar has personally commanded fighter jets in the war on terror to motivate fighter - pilots into putting in their best.

All that's in the works, according to Mary «Missy» Cummings, a former F / A -18 fighter pilot who is an MIT aeronautics professor focusing on human interfaces for UAVs.

Some birds swooped down on other flying birds like a fighter pilot; others pounced on birds feeding on the ground.

Some are visible only after sunset, none are created by seeding, and one chewed on a fighter pilot for half an hour before spitting him out, alive.

Missy Cummings, a former Navy fighter pilot and director of Duke University's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, defines «on the loop» as human supervisory control: «intermittent human operator interaction with a remote, automated system in order to manage a controlled process or task environment.»

Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.

Your body doesn't so much «switch» to anaerobic but instead turns on the anaerobic system, in the same sense that fighter jet pilots don't «switch» to the afterburners to go supersonic but rather use them in addition to current engine power.

In the storyline, planet Earth's resistance aims to stop a deadly infection consuming both life forms and technology alike, oddly having to rely on an anti-hero mercenary and bounty hunter to pilot a mighty prototype star fighter.

Director William Wellman drew on his own WWI French Foreign Legion aviator combat experience, including being shot down by anti-aircraft fire, to dramatize this story of two American fighter pilots, Jack Powell and David Armstrong...

In The Great Santini, Duvall played Lt. Col. «Bull» Meechum, a Marine Corps fighter pilot who was super strict on his children and thought discipline and push ups were better parenting tools than hugs and encouragement.

The set where the event took place in Albuquerque included two vehicles on display: a «human / alien hybrid fighter» that Maika Monroe pilots; and a «Moon Tug» which Liam Hemsworth pilots.

Jackal missions aren't too hard even on Veteran difficulty — a smart move, given that FPS fans aren't necessarily experienced fighter pilots.

After a fighter pilot crash lands on her home island, an Amazonian princess leaves the safety of her home and joins the battle of WWI, discovering her superpowers along the way.

Fresh off of trying to appeal to every nerd ever with Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg has signed on to produce and «very possibly» direct an actual comic book movie with Blackhawk, an adaptation of an old DC Comics series about World War II fighter pilots.

Accompanying him on this journey is Allison Ng (Emma Stone), a fighter pilot who boasts of her one - quarter Hawaiian ancestry.

There are three simultaneous stories, each revolving around one of the young heroes from «The Force Awakens»: Rey (Daisy Ridley), who's found Luke on his hidden island and now needs his help to keep the Resistance alive; Hot - shot fighter pilot Poe (played by Oscar Isaac), who's part of Leia «s combat team; and Finn (John Boyega), who's on his own side mission.

Also revealed during the panel was that the movie will very much make its focus on a post-war generation after the events of the «War of 1996 ″ — with orphans - turned - fighter - pilots, Sela Ward as a president who's been preparing for round two for 20 years, and Jeff Goldblum as the director of Earth Space Defense.

When U.S. fighter pilot Steve Trevor crash - lands on the island, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization.

SYNOPSIS: After a fighter pilot crash lands on her home island, an Amazonian princess leaves the safety of her -LSB-...]

Gilcrest and Allison find common ground looking up at the constellations, while on the ground Alec Baldwin as the hilariously volcanic General Dixon pushes for a military command center, and Tracey's uncommunicative fighter pilot husband Woody, John Krasinski, the tall silent type, remains an enigma to his wife.

It's 1944, and a World War II fighter pilot crash - lands on an uncharted South Pacific island, as does his Japanese adversary.

Directed by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman tells the story of the Amazon princess who, after discovering the body of American fighter pilot Steve Trevor washed ashore on Themyscira, sets out to bring an early end to World War I.

As World War I unfolds, Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) lives on an Amazonian island, cut off from the outside world until fighter pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes his plane there.

Whenever astronaut John Glenn left on a mission as a fighter pilot ~ he'd tell his wife ~ «Well ~ I'm going down to the corner to buy some chewing gum»...

Inside the «aircraft - style cockpit» there are «fighter pilot - style» buttons on the roof console to start the engine, and steering - wheel mounted paddles to operate the six - speed automatic «box.

And earlier in 2015, after a visit to Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill wrote to the Air Force Chief of Staff, expressing her concerns over the growing problem, noting that a drone pilot «could be sitting down to a meal with his or her family less than two hours after killing Islamic State or Taliban fighters... they could be playing with their children shortly after witnessing up close and in graphic detail the effects of a 500 - pound bomb or Hellfire missile on a soft target.»

Readers were impressed with the ease with which Iona Grey navigated between the twentieth century and today: Readers travel seamlessly back and forth between WWII and the present through Dan's letters to Stella, at the same time learning what fighter pilots and those on the home front endured.

Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism — he has a tendency to say exactly what's on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship — but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he's used to a little leniency from his superiors.

A small nod to singleplayer is included in the form of missions such as a Speeder chase on Endor or piloting a Tie fighter, each designed to act more as a tutorial for the online side of things with some minor rewards for teir completion.

The Star Wars (tm): Rise Against the Empire Play Set will take players on galaxy - spanning missions with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Darth Vader, piloting X-wing fighters or the Millennium Falcon to fight stormtroopers, or exploring and partaking in land - based missions on planets like Tatooine, Hoth, and Endor.

Players will take to the stars as part of a group of fighter pilots to take on a fleet of evil robots intent on invading your home system of Atlas.

Come try out the free Demo, join the Community HUB on steam, or join the ranks of brave fighter pilots defending the solar system and competing for high scores and prestige!

The player takes on the role of Red Barton, a pilot of a WWI era fighter airplane fighting his way through waves of enemies, on a mission to save his love and restore his honor.

This is because players will take on the role of a tie fighter pilot immediately following the events of the Battle of Endor at the end of Return of the Jedi.

The Slave 1 will tear through little fighters, as will the Millenium Falcon, however, clever pilots have discovered that by popping on the Falcon's shields, they can simply ram the Slave 1 out of the sky without taking any damage.

Attention all aspiring fighter jet pilots, yesterday Sega quietly announced on their blog that After Burner Climax is rocketing towards a release on iOS.

Randy divides his time between a fighter pilot career in Rogue Aces and being a bad influence on Kratos Jr. in God of War.

So just to recap here: Oshima's take on Sonic The Hedgehog's backstory is that Sonic was actually a fictional character within another fictional world about a fighter pilot and his wife.