And I was in like case myself; besides which, I had never flown one of the big twin-engined boats.
Presently, in the distance, we heard the faint note of a twin-engined machine.
At Hendon I had assisted in dragging the first twin-engined Handley-Page, at midnight and with the greatest secrecy, through the streets leading from the works at Cricklewood to the aerodrome.
He saw a large and nasty-looking twin-engined machine right behind, and the smoke of tracer bullets lacing the air.
High above the bombarding monitors flew the powerfully engined seaplane, now nearly half a mile in the wake of Fuller's "bus.
Skimming the sea at mast-height, the twin-engined attack bombers strafed the Jap decks with a terrible hail of bullets.
A few Aichi T98’s and a number of single engined Nakajimas made up the rest.
You’ve flown twin-engined planes in Advanced Training School and you’ll get the hang of your new B-26 on the way to Darwin.
Over the treetops came a twin-engined Mitsubishi bomber, but she was not heading toward the two B-26’s.
The worst tragedy was the killing of a twin-engined bomber’s crew when a shell exploded in their tent.
This was a twin-engined Mitsubishi bomber, a land-based type, that appeared to have taken off from the island to leeward.
Curtiss, and engined with a motor which also bore his name.
For an airship she was certainly a novelty, being built and engined in Rhodesia and of Rhodesian material--a striking testimony to the growth of one of Britain's youngest children.
Realizing this with a sure judgment, the captain fell back on an alternative which would hardly have been open to him with a destroyer less powerfully built andengined than the latest "V's.
The City of Leeds, a powerfully enginedlittle packet which had been on the Hamburg-Harwich run before the war, furnished the only glaring instance of deliberate bad faith.
A few steps across the slippery moss-covered stones, where the falling tide had bared the sloping landing, took us to where a small but powerfully engined steam launch was waiting to convey the party to Norderney.
In diesel-engined airplanes the size of the engine could be reduced by 25 percent by feeding oxygen into the intake air during the takeoff.
Within a few months they produced a multi-engined giant bomber.
It was estimated, in 1918, that well over eighty per cent of German aircraft was engined with the Mercedes type.
Gradually the motor-car firms came in, turning their body-building departments to plane and fuselage construction, which enabled them to turn out the complete planes engined and ready for the field.
Before the War a few machines fitted with more than one engine had been built (the first being a triple Gnome-engined biplane built by Messrs Short Bros.
The giant twin-engined Handley-Page bomber was tried out, proved efficient, and justly considered better than anything of its kind that had previously taken the field.
The first five machines in order of merit were all engined with the Gnome motor.
Oberursel and the Stahlhertz; of these the former was by far the most promising, and it came to virtual monopoly of the rotary-engined plane as soon as the war demand began.
In the year 1834, he contracted for and engined several vessels for the Dundee and London Shipping Company, of which Mr. George Duncan, late M.
She was very powerfully enginedand would undoubtedly bring a good price--once they got her there.
The gates were turning back before I had reached the upper deck, and a few minutes later the powerfully-engined old stern-wheeler went floundering across the foam-streaked tail of the Cascades and off down the river.
Why have we been skipping all over England flying everything from kites to four engined transports?
Or maybe those big four engined British Short "Sunderland" flying boats," Dave added in a speculative manner.
That off his chest, Dave hauled the nose even higher and plowed straight for a long range Focke-Wulf 187 twin engined job that was trying to cut down under Freddy Farmer's withering fire from the tail turret of the Catalina.
Then the Gnome-engined machine of the "Circuit of Europe.
Then came the little Gnome-engined scout biplanes, 1914, some with, some without, skids.
Six years later Fulton's Clermont, engined by the British firm of Boulton and Watt, ran on the Hudson from New York to Albany.
The first 'Cunarder' to arrive in Canada was the Britannia, 1154 tons, built on the Clyde, and engined there by Napier.
Two years later again the Accommodation, the first steamer in Canada, was launched at Montreal, and engined there as well.
Out of the town to a flying field, where a multi-engined plane was warming up.
The Rio de la Plata spread out widely below the roaring multi-engined plane and the vast expanse of buildings which is Buenos Aires appeared far ahead in the gathering dusk.
He managed it by grace of an able sea boat, engined to drive through sea and wind, and by the nerve and endurance to drive her in any weather.
The purse seiner works in daylight, off a powerfully engined sixty-foot, thirty-ton craft.
Again, while such a school machine as this is engined adequately, it is at the same time comparatively slow in flight, and has the advantage also that it will alight at slow speeds.
In peace flying, too, as well as in war, the multiple-engined aeroplane brings a new factor of safety.
We had not gone far when we encountered a great double-engined Albatross, and there, with the white billowy clouds stretching like waves of a gigantic sea in all directions, we fought our battle of life and death.
As he draws near we discover that he is double-engined and mounts two machine-guns.
Von Richthofen's good judgment of fighting values, though he was then only an observer, and a novice at that, is shown by his disapproval of the twin-engined aeroplane as a fighting machine.
Friedrichshafens, and other of the twin-engined types.
It is encouraging to find that though these twin-engined machines were in operation in September, 1915, the first bombing squadron so composed only came into action against defenceless Bucharest a year later.
From this disposition of the air-screws, and from the date of the occurrence, one assumes that this was one of the very earliest twin-engined Gothas, of the type which the R.
He saw the huge four-engined long range flying boat type of craft that the Japs had copied from the type of flying boat that the French had used before the war on the mail and passenger run between Dakar and Brazil.
His tracers streaked out and seemed to be cutting the Zero's left wing in two, but the Jap craft continued to come boiling in at the big four-engined bomber.
And five minutes after that the big four-engined job, being ferried out to the South Pacific to play its part in the war, was tooled down to an expert landing on the Air Forces constructed field on the outskirts of the city of Broome.
However, the strange-looking seaplane did stay well clear, and a couple of moments later Dave stall-landed the dead engined plane in the water.
It is one of their four-engined Kawanishi flying boats, just as sure as you're a foot high.
One after one now the twin-engined machines come roaring up the coast.
Then I saw in the air ahead of us the familiar form of a twin-engined machine.
The ship, a Bertold single engined plane, had been shot down in southeastern Iowa on the Kansas City to Chicago run and more than a hundred thousand in currency taken from the registered mail pouch which it carried.
I'm going to take that three-engined demon up where there's plenty of room and ride it for all it's worth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
