The A400M's wings are made in Filton near Bristol, employing more than 800 people.
Yet they are far larger than the bird's wings, and shimmer with an iridescent glow.
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They might want to clip the committee's wings by limiting its powers in some way.
We had to buy fishing lines and catapults to fire the line over the Angel's wings.
Break angel's wings, but you're never gonna break, you're never gonna break my faith.
The A350's delay is due to a production problem involving drilling holes in the plane's wings.
This adjusted the airflow to the insect's wings, in turn adjusting the direction of the lift and thrust that the wings produced.
Deep Flight Aviator's wings, viewed in cross section, look exactly like an airplane's, upside-down: They're curved on the bottom, flat on top.
But - for now at least - he seems to have done enough to please eurosceptics in his own party and clip UKIP's wings a little.
With the central-bank governor's wings clipped and ABN Amro's success in sight, they ought to feel emboldened to take another look at Italy's fragmented banking sector.
In June Dr Mahathir brought an old chum and former finance minister, Daim Zainuddin, into the cabinet with an economic brief that has clipped Mr Anwar's wings.
At that point we were thankful all our loose ends were tethered as we got a close look at the shuttle's wings, inside the side hatch and even inside the engines.
If Turkey does clip Mr Denktash's wings, it will be out of fear that the country's timetable for starting EU accession talks could be derailed if the Cyprus issue remains unresolved.
Then the leasing company that is the largest customer for the Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
Then the leasing company that's the largest customer for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
Layers of sound fold one over another, the low beat of a dragonfly's wings joined by the calling of crickets, the clucking of a mother hen with her chicks, and the thrum of a motorcycle passing in the distance.
Then the leasing company that's the largest customer for Boeing's (nyse: BA - news - people ) 787 Dreamliner gave word that structural changes to where the plane's wings attach to the fuselage would further delay the 787's first flight by three to six months.
The Detroit Tigers have managed to get outpaced by their citymates three times in the last two decades, including by both the NHL's Red Wings and the NBA's Pistons in 2003.
If it's turkey wings, fresh collard greens, salmon croquets or homemade corn bread you crave -- Nita's is the place to be.
On Apr. 9 Newman's Battle Wings faced off against Ross' Talons in Bossier City.
Especially when you try to find your room amidst the hotel's seven wings, 23 elevators and 33 stairwells.
Thus, it is a must that all 10 nations of Southeast Asia be gathered under ASEAN's protective wings, regardless of ideological persuasion.
The English side slowly earned a foothold in the game and Bath's two wings, Maddock and Higgins, made good breaks that had the Blues defence scrambling back.
"I'm very into the Harley myth, " says Alvin LaSalle, 63, an electrical contractor in Cathedral City, California, who has Harley's trademark wings and the word "Free" tattooed on his arm.
The Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson says those mishaps usually result from a simple break in the line-of-sight connection between a plane and the satellite that controls it--often when one of the aircraft's own wings maneuvers into the path of the signal.
First up for a makeover, should Winder's vision be realized, would be Fleming's second novel, "Live and Let Die, " initially made in 1973 in Moore's first appearance in the lead role -- something that would likely only raise eyebrows among Moore connoisseurs and fans of the original's epic Wings title track.
With Ranadive's group waiting in the wings, the NBA's relocation committee last month voted unanimously against allowing the Kings to move to Seattle.
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According to Patrice Pla, ACSA's marketing manager, SeaExplorer's lack of wings reduces the chance of its getting tangled in nets.
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But it's on the wings where Wales has its biggest size advantage.
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