Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

Tracks in the snow showed the plane was airborne in less than a hundred feet.

But in the plane there was a concrete reason for it.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Everybody else was allowed to file off the plane after it touched down at El Paso at 4:18 a.m..

At 12:50 p.m. a ramp was rolled up to the plane.

I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.

I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.

At 3:57 a.m., with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward the cockpit.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

The course of the rays in the meridional section is no longer symmetrical to the principal ray of the pencil ; and on an intercepting plane there appears, instead of a luminous point, a patch of light, not symmetrical about a point, and often exhibiting a resemblance to a comet having its tail directed towards or away from the axis.

" Although the plane came down only five miles northwest of the airport, no one saw or heard the crash ", wrote rock performer, archivist and music historian, Harry Hepcat, in his article about Buddy Holly.

Already a couple of weeks later, an Antonov cargo plane crossed the border from Sudan and landed at Tiringoulou airport in C. A. R., where it unloaded weapons and about 50 armed men who spread out in the area.

The plane of the outer ring is distorted, which suggests that NGC 4650A is the result of a galaxy collision about a billion years ago.

When Danny Kaye heard about the accident, he immediately flew his own plane to McCarran Airport to pick up Schoen and bring him back to Los Angeles to guarantee the best medical attention.

As the rotational axis of the Earth is not perpendicular to its orbital plane, the Earth's equatorial plane is not coplanar with the ecliptic plane, but is inclined to it by an angle of about 23 °. 4, which is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Currently about 23 °. 4, it varies slightly due to motion of the plane of the Earth's orbit, and hence the ecliptic, with planetary precession.

Many results about plane figures are proved, e. g., If a triangle has two equal angles, then the sides subtended by the angles are equal.

The other is rotation about a fixed point in the plane, in which every point in the plane turns about that fixed point through the same angle.

Along converging plate margins, the dip angle of the rupture plane is very shallow, typically about 10 degrees.

This graph is planar ( it is important to note that we are talking about the graphs that have some limitations according to the map they are transformed from only ): it can be drawn in the plane without crossings by placing each vertex at an arbitrarily chosen location within the region to which it corresponds, and by drawing the edges as curves that lead without crossing within each region from the vertex location to each shared boundary point of the region.

Only about 1 % of all distance travelled was by plane in 2002.

Most of this dust is orbiting the Sun in about the ecliptic plane, with a possible concentration of particles at the Earth – Sun Lagrangian point.

* In 2005, a fighter aircraft accompanying a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea violated Lithuanian airspace for about 20 minutes before crashing near Kaunas

Note that from the perspective of the smaller-mass object — from the moon, in the preceding example — a spacecraft might appear to orbit in an irregular path about the or point, but from the perspective above the orbital plane, it becomes clear that both the smaller mass and the spacecraft are orbiting the larger mass ( or more precisely, all of the objects are in orbit around the barycenter of the system ); they simply have overlapping orbital paths.

Solar and lunar eclipses are not observed every month because the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about five degrees with respect to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun ( the plane of the ecliptic ).

He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m.p.h. -- fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown -- and banked into the airfield.

If any part of the ball reaches any part of the imaginary vertical plane transected by this line while in-bounds and in possession of a player whose team is striving toward that end of the field, this is considered a touchdown and scores six points for the team whose player has advanced the ball to, or recovered the ball in, this position.

The touchdown is scored the instant the ball crosses the plane of the goal line — that is, any part of the ball is in the space on, above, or across the goal line — while in possession of a player whose team is trying to score in that end zone.

The challenge of designing a tandem-gear layout is that the aircraft has to sit ( on the ground ) at the optimum flight angle for landing-when the plane is nearly in a stalled attitude just before touchdown, both fore and aft wheels must be ready to contact the runway.

The plane, which had been traveling from Fort Worth Alliance Airport, landed short of the touchdown zone and skidded off the runway amid light freezing rain.

A touchdown is achieved when a player has legal possession of the ball and the ball crosses an imaginary vertical plane above the opposing team's goal line.

The autoland system responded accordingly and configured the plane for touchdown, idling the engines.