Sentences with phrase «maiden flight on»

Our very own Brian Merchant will be on board the Alaska Airlines biofuel maiden flight on Wednesday and will have a chance to talk to the experts, so expect more details on this soon.

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia officially became the first and only carrier to operate direct flights from Ambon, Maluku, to Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi, following the service's maiden flight on Wednesday.

The prototype of what is believed to be the China's second stealth fighter jet performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, when it took off at 10:32 AM Local Time from the runway of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility.

The first operational KC - 46A Pegasus — the tanker being designed by Boeing to replace the aging KC - 135 — took its maiden flight on December 5.

The first prototype of the aircraft performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, 2012, and made a public appearance on Nov. 12, 2014 at Zhuhai Airshow.

Not exact matches

Musk chimed in a few days later to confirm the tentative date of the rocket's maiden flight: «Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy.

A C919 passenger jet takes off from Pudong International Airport for its maiden flight, on May 5, 2017 in Shanghai, China.

The first launch of the Falcon Heavy will be a test flight, and SpaceX is notorious for offbeat payloads on its vessels» maiden voyages.

A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.

«SpaceShipTwo looked positively beautiful today on her maiden feathered flight!»

ESA was taking the risk of launching it on Ariane 5's maiden flight.

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

Though the maiden launch of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is still, at the earliest, more than two years away, work on the large rocket's Mobile Launcher (ML) moves forward in support of the first flight of the agency's next crew - rated launch vehicle.

The date of the first SLS flight is yet to be determined as the agency discusses the possibility of including a crew on that maiden voyage.

It crashed on its maiden flight, killing two crew persons — including a highly experienced pilot.

Whether you think of your book as a Boeing 777, ready to go out and take the world by storm, or a Navy F - 14 Tomcat fighter aircraft, ready to knock all of the competition out of the sky, every book sits on the runway and needs a thorough going over before its ready for its maiden flight and print job.

On a cool morning in March, Rork piloted the maiden flight for the new plane from Arizona.

I travelled on the maiden flight from Oakland to Oslo.

As per the tentative schedule, NASA hopes to launch the Space Launch System on Exploration Mission (EM) 1, its maiden flight, in the latter part of December 2019.

If his ability to reason reliably about climate science is any indication of the standards set by the ESA for the engineering of Ariane 5, it is perhaps not so surprising that it exploded on its maiden flight:

Would you want to be on this maiden flight?