sortie

Converse of object

• fly: A total of ten aircraft took part, flying 126 ground attack sorties from HMS Hermes.
• flow: Sorties flown on June 9 were flown at maximum capacity.
• conduct: Joan Fairhurst has been conducting sorties from the Outdoor Education Center which have boosted the figure.
• lead: These sorties led to detachments being sent to France, under the cover name of Special Survey Flights.
• make: The RAF made 110 sorties by Spitfires & 15 sorties by Hurricanes during the day & shot down 15 German aircraft.
• undertake: The RCAHMS aerial survey program has now undertaken some 1,100 sorties, producing over 100,000 images.

Preposition: over

Adjective modifier

• operational: The hard work meant crews were flying operational sorties within 36 hrs of arriving in theater.
• low-level: These Alpha Jets were captured by Martin Cole on a low-level sortie with the Hawks in the Welsh hills.
• armed: Following its arrival, the squadron flew armed reconnaissance sorties in support of British troops in the French colony.
• occasional: Occasional sorties to higher speeds were, however, painless enough.
• routine: Mid-March saw 15 members of the Sqn make use of a routine training sortie to visit Bissegem airfield in Belgium.
• brief: They gather momentum around the homes and reach a climax at the Manor, followed by a brief sortie to the Cross.

Modifies a noun

• map: This can then be looked up in the sortie map index, to give a list of sorties that covered that general area.

Noun used with modifier

• reconnaissance: Numerous reconnaissance sorties were flown over the Aegean to track enemy shipping.
• bombing: In all over 3,000 missions were carried out including 21 night bombing sorties.
• combat: Tariq Aziz said that these jets had carried out 76 combat air sorties between October 16 and 23.
• air: During the Kosovo campaign the United States was relied on to conduct almost 85 per cent of air strike sorties.
• night: In all over 3,000 missions were carried out including 21 night bombing sorties.
• training: A typical training sortie would involve a four hour flight cross-country, involving simulated radar bombing runs against selected targets.