First occasion on which an aircraft or spacecraft leaves the ground under its own power.
1For the maiden flight, test pilot Markus Scherdel was in the cockpit.
2It generated heated excitement until the aircraft crashed on its maiden flight.
3Anytime something that big makes its maiden flight, it draws a crowd.
4A century ago tomorrow the first modern airship successfully undertook its maiden flight.
5General Atomic's updated Predator made its maiden flight last month in Palmdale, California.
6Wizz Air's maiden flight to London took off from Katowice in May 2004.
7SpaceShipTwo had its maiden flight in the California desert in March.
8It was not a heron, however, which claimed the maiden flight of Mabonde.
9Translation: We had high expectations for this maiden flight and we were not disappointed.
10This particular booster's maiden flight was in May, ferrying Bangladesh's first satellite into orbit.
11A successful maiden flight finally took place in mid-December 2018.
12A successful maiden flight manned by two pilots finally took place in mid-December 2018.
13In December of 2008 he piloted SpaceShipTwo's mother ship, Eve, on its maiden flight.
14Last year, Russia postponed the maiden flight of its first fifth-generation fighter aircraft until 2010.
15The planemaker is targeting a maiden flight this year and entry into service the next.
16Northrop Grumman has a clean-sheet design, called Trainer-X, that made its maiden flight in August.
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