How to Use rocket plane in a Sentence

rocket plane

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• The rocket plane’s portion of the flight took just 15 minutes.
  — Time, 11 July 2021
• These were needed to show the dramatic speed of the X-15, but the rocket plane would not have flown on such a cloudy day).
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2018
• Spectators cheered, jumped into the air and embraced as the rocket plane touched down on Earth.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Spectators cheered, jumped into the air and embraced as the rocket plane touched down.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 11 July 2021
• The historic flight is only the second time that the rocket plane has carried people.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 July 2021
• As soon as the rocket plane was clear of the B-52, the pilot would grab the throttle as quickly as possible to open the propellant lines.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• Just as the war was ending, Bell Aircraft won a contract to build a rocket plane with no other purpose than to exceed the speed of sound.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 27 July 2018
• Armstrong was the consummate test pilot who flew the fabled X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space and cooly overcame in-flight emergencies.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 July 2019
• Though that mission succeeded, the VSS Unity rocket plane was off course and likely should have aborted the mission.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 May 2023
• Valier has calculated that a rocket plane could be shot from Berlin to New York in 93 minutes, dividing the journey in three stages.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2020
• The rocket plane — which requires two pilots — glides to a runway landing at its Spaceport America base.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• Like most 1940s aircraft, North American Aviation’s jet fighter and Bell’s rocket plane, in their first designs, had wings that stuck straight out.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 27 July 2018
• On Sunday morning, a small rocket plane operated by Virgin Galactic, which Branson founded in 2004, carried him and five other people to the edge of space and back.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
• Mojave Desert left three workers dead, and in 2014, when a Virgin Galactic rocket plane broke apart during a test flight, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2021
• The capsule is entirely automated, unlike Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane that required two pilots to get him to space and back a week ago.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 18 July 2021
• Like its predecessor, SpaceShipTwo is a rocket plane that is slung beneath a special jet airplane and released at high altitude.
  — John Antczak, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• Branson is due to take off Sunday from New Mexico, launching with two pilots and three other employees aboard a rocket plane carried aloft by a double-fuselage aircraft.
  — Marcia Dunn, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2021
• First Man begins with a great scene of an X-15 rocket plane rocking and rolling underneath its carrier aircraft before blasting into the upper atmosphere.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
• That vision included a reusable rocket plane, a space station, a moon base, and eventually settlements on Mars.
  — Taylor Dinerman, National Review, 20 July 2019
• Unlike Branson’s piloted rocket plane, Bezos’ capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 20 July 2021
• Bezos launched to space successfully on July 20 with three other passengers, nine days after Branson beat him there in Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer flight experience were shown in an online event revealing the cabin of the company’s rocket plane, a type called SpaceShipTwo, which is undergoing testing in preparation for commercial service.
  — John Antczak, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer flight experience were shown in an online event revealing the cabin of the company's rocket plane, a type called SpaceShipTwo, which is undergoing testing in preparation for commercial service.
  — John Antczak, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024