Sentences with phrase «of war planes»

But the images that first grounded her interest were of war planes, smoking guns, and other images of death and disaster.

Michael Oatman, an obsessive collagist, is here presenting his piece «Small Blanket» which appears at first to be a nighttime sky filled with snowflakes until upon closer inspection the flakes are revealed to be made up of dozens of war planes fashioned into mandala like patterns.

His childhood drawings — schematics of war planes, storyboard cartoons, caricatures of classmates — aren't anything special.

One hopes that the order for the purchase of war planes from the U.S., ostensibly to fight Boko Haram terrorism, is not connected with the hidden agenda for a jihad.»

Monday's bombardment that killed nearly 100 people saw the use of war planes, helicopter gunships, and missiles as well as artillery, in a major escalation of violence near President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

Not exact matches

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

Planes from the Garibaldi carried out 288 missions in the first year of the War in Afghanistan.

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.

So I sat in the back, I got up there and on the way back they didn't have a plane, they had one plane a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage and they were going back to Alameda so I thought I'd hitch on that.

«On the way back, they had one plane, a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage, and I thought I'd hitch on that.

Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the «airplane built around the GAU - 8 Avenger 30 - mm hydraulically driven seven - barrel Gatling - type cannon» to fight the Soviet tanks in the European battlefields during the Cold War, is considered one of the most durable and lethal combat plane in the CAS (Close Air Support) mission.

«The P - 51 Mustang is the most iconic fighter plane from World War II and a powerful symbol of the United States» aviation combat history,» Hinton explains.

That ship carries troops and more than 30 planes, including the F - 35 stealth fighter — one of America's most advanced attack aircraft and one that would almost certainly be used if war with North Korea were to break out.

That's adding to pressure on Munoz, who has been under fire this year for fighting a fare war with discounters, bobbling the rollout of a new no - frills product and mishandling the furor when a passenger was dragged off a plane in April.

CEO Oscar Munoz plans to put more planes in the skies, sparking fears of a price war and wiping billions off United's and rivals» market values.

What is being planed for the long run and who could be or made to look as the only beneficiary out of such acts separating between God believers and igniting fires for achieving long wars in the name of Religions and only to prove that religion is the headache and mother of all crimes.

«Hmm, oh look those planes are about to hit the building and start a huge backlash that will lead to massive islamaphobia, two worthless wars, loss of life, global economic backlash, and a whole shitload of other things.

One, shows Joseph and Marry traveling through the rubble of a war zone; one shows the wise men looking up to a plane dropping a bomb instead of the Christmas star; one, shows the manger with one of the walls blown off.

Picasso's «Guernica» depicted the horrors of the bombing by Nazi planes of a tiny village during the Spanish Civil War, making striking use of the cross to drive home the inhumanity of modern warfare.

Darryl Greenamyer, of Las Vegas, set a world record for unlimited prop planes by flying his World War II P - 51 at a speed of 413.987 mph at the Reno National Championship air races.

I would say that clear defining point of Nuclear War is when a nation achieves what is called «The Nuclear Triad» which refers to the three ways to deliver a nuke to a target: Ground Based Launches, Sea Based Launches (usually uses Submarines) and Sky based Launches (by both missile systems on a plane and gravity bombs).

Levy, who chartered a plane to be in Sullivan County during a number of stops, said he was the only Republican in the field with a $ 5 million war chest and executive experience.

As a boy he dreamed of flying airplanes and, upon the start of World War II, he decided he wanted to fly military planes.

Several planes had been shot down in that area, regardless of whether or not it's officially a war zone.

Regardless of who shot down the plane and taking into account that (non-civil) planes had been shot down before, is Ukraine in part responsible for allowing civil planes to fly over a war zone?

Back when we fought Worl War II, our workers were the best and most productive workers on the planet, our planes were the best, our weapons were the best, and products were made with pride and were the envy of the world.

The senator asked his colleagues in the Red Chamber to invoke Section 143 of the Nigerian Constitution to remove the president because the latter approved the sum of $ 496 million for the purpose of purchasing 12 Super Tucano war planes without recourse to the NASS.

In the 1930s and 1940s, when countries were racing to Antarctica to claim their own pie slice, Hitler even sent planes down during the height of World War II, so that Germany did not miss out and so that Germany would get a claim as well; they marked off its pie slice with Swastika - marked sandbags.

It was morphology that had guided him during the war years, when he was director of research for Aerojet Engineering and helped develop (among numerous other innovations leading to dozens of patents) the engines that allowed jet - assisted takeoff, the ingenious solution to the problem of how to get a plane off the short runway of an aircraft carrier.

Indeed, the U.S.'s ballistic missile defense systems, its X-37B space planes and even its GSSAP spacecraft, though all ostensibly devoted to maintaining peace, could be easily repurposed into weapons of space war.

The vast polar structure — a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way — is at the center of a tug - of - war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

Friedman: Well, it -LSB-'s] precisely because — and again [this] goes back to the thesis — in a world that is hot, flat, and crowded, clean power, clean technology, the ability to have your energy in both the clean form where you know the cost of your power and you can control that much better; that's going to be a source of power generally and that's going to be a currency of power, every bit Is [as] much as tanks, planes, and nuclear missiles have been during the cold war.

A few years later we found ourselves journeying to Russia in the cargo hold of an Ilyushin Il 20M propeller plane, a onetime aerial spy from the cold war era.

But people dislike playing Russian roulette — even with those odds — each time they board a plane, as the dip in travellers through fear of terrorist action around the Gulf War shows.

The rakish angle of the 1937 Vought - Sikorsky Kingfisher, a World War II scout plane adept at slow flight, indicates that it's coming in for landing, while the Pitts Special S - 1C that hangs above the entrance is fully inverted, the way that aerobatics champion Betty Skelton often flew it in the late 1940s.

Two floats are common, but many float planes of World War II had a single float under the main fuselage and two small floats on the wings.

Players can participate in some of the war's most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and heavy bombers across a range of thrilling missions.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie directs this true life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, only to fight for... [MORE]

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Snyder's passion clearly lies with creating vast worlds where retro - fitted war - planes can take on fire - breathing dragons and hot girls in fishnet stockings can mow down a train car full of enemy robots.

Best Proof of Life: Harrison Ford The «Star Wars» panel was adoring of new and returning players, but only one star brought the entire room to its feet: Harrison Ford, appearing in public for the first time since his recent, quite serious single - engine plane crash in Los Angeles.

You fly a World War I biplane that has to bomb certain areas, fight off other planes and take care of ground attacks.

On this scale, soap opera and comedy skit bytes can only go so far, and Infinity War manages a succession of double - page - spread awe that sells the cosmic saga: a marvellous trompe l'oeil shot as a camera move reveals the sorry state of Thanos's rebel adoptive daughter Nebula, the by - now - obligatory mass urban destructions and battles with monster hordes on open planes, and gorgeously imaginative outer - space vistas.

Leonardo DiCaprio is stunning in the role of Howard Hughes, a millionaire film director at heart, but his soul is within his aviation career, building planes for the war.

But things change (and the pace picks up considerably from its exposition - heavy, conflict - free intro) when Capt. Trevor's fighter plane delivers the agonizing realities of the first World War.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

The Japanese animation power - house, Studio Ghibli, proudly presents The Wind Rises, an animated biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Despite Ellsberg's opinion, when McNamara steps off of the plane to a flock of D.C. reporters, he declares that the U.S. is close to winning the war.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's ever done,» though he noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and war, never falls into focus.»