shakedown flight

But the new airport's first year shakedown flight has had its share of air bumps.

The extra time will give us a chance to make a few shakedown flights and run full diagnostics.

I never should have tried such a long shakedown flight in this kite until I was sure all the bugs were out.

The shakedown flight lasted for fifteen hours.

He described the shakedown flight briefly, and grinned as the men crowded around to slap him on the back and shake hands.

Tom inspected the craft thoroughly and ordered it transported to Fearing Island for its shakedown flight.

According to schedule, this craft would undergo full power-up soon, preparatory to its actual launch and a shakedown flight.

Although he didn't want either to expend resources or risk the possibility of accident, Buch ordered a series of shakedown flights.

The two airlines tentatively plan shakedown flights between New York and Paris on the weekend of Sept. 22.

Except for occasional aircraft scrambles in response to the shakedown flights which never left Germany, life in Falstaff lapsed into routine.

After making six domestic shakedown flights, the airship made a first long distance journey in October 1928 crossing the Atlantic to the United States.

He then took the plane, with a full crew, for a shakedown flight to the Washington Navy Yard for inspection by Navy leadership.

This shakedown flight was no more than routine, she thought, tearing off a chunk of the Mercassian bread and using it to sop up some of the salad dressing.

On 1 February, VP-18 was relocated to NAS Charleston, S.C., for shakedown flight training in the Mariner.

The September flight was designed as an engineering "shakedown flight" for the instrument before scientific flights start at the end of November, the Met-office MOTH-Arctic campaign.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- NASA successfully flew its airborne hurricane research mission on a shakedown flight over the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, the agency said.