Sentences with phrase «flight opportunities for»

NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.

In response, three other airlines filed proposals to use the flight opportunity for a new daily flight of their own.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the Dao scandal, airlines have vowed to make changes easier to digest for travelers, increasing the amount of compensation or giving passengers advanced notice and the opportunity to rebook on the app, if a flight is cancelled or oversold.

I first wrote about the company back in 2011 for New Scientist, but just happened to find myself sitting next to some of the principals on the flight down to Vegas this year, which was a great opportunity to catch up on what they've been doing.

Indeed, thanks to the Military Personnel Exchange Program, the U.S. Air Force has the opportunity to swap service members with an allied nation military: for this reason, whilst «Pinna», from an AMX A-11A Ghibli experience with the 132 ° Gruppo (Squadron), flies with the 74th FS, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Joe «Slap» Goldsworthy, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot with more than 2,700 flight hours of experience, is assigned to the 132 ° Gruppo and flies the Ghibli (even in combat).

The company has a long wish list, including plentiful flights at local airports, a stable, business - friendly government and nearby recreational opportunities for employees.

«Today's outcome, while appearing to offer some hope of remedy for the pipeline, does not address the larger issue of our competitiveness and the real - time flight of capital occurring in our country and province, despite the myriad of opportunities for Canada to succeed in the global economy.»

«If H.B. 821 were enacted into law, we believe that while our member airlines would see an immediate financial benefit, the state of Georgia would also see long - term benefits in the form of more flight options, lower fares and greater opportunity for growth,» wrote Sean Williams, vice president for state and local government affairs.

I am so grateful — for all these opportunities, of course, but mostly for the kindness of other people: the reader who shoved a $ 50 Starbucks card into my pocket at a signing; the flight attendant who gently patted my arm; Dad's idea to make my favorite comfort food for dinner and Mom's faithful execution of pork loin, rice, and fried apples; Marvin and Brandon at Belk; Dan's shoulder; a call from my sister; readers who pile into minvans and drive many miles just to talk, friends who understood why, with all this good publicity, I would just need a good, long cry.

Having arrived at Villa back in 2008, he had to be patient for his opportunity to play regularly, but once Paul Lambert came in he was a veritable rock for the Villans and played a huge part in keeping them in the top flight.

This looks a great opportunity for Shaw to ensure he is playing regularly in the top flight, with recent rumours linking him with Arsenal and Chelsea perhaps not an ideal next step for him.

Taking place during 9th week of Michaelmas term, the Winter Training Camp was a great opportunity for aspiring solo pilots to build up flight time and experience during the winter training period when soaring is harder, if not impossible.

An older head or two could balance out the squad nicely, and Carrick becoming available on a free transfer is an opportunity that is too good to turn down for Spurs, and several other top - flight clubs.

It's believed that the South London club have the opportunity to sign Zaha on a permanent deal at the end of his loan spell for a fee of around # 8m, reports the Mirror, but only if they retain their top flight status in 2014/15.

This season has undoubtedly been a disruptive period and real setback for him, but over the course of the next three weeks he has the opportunity to build some momentum, take that into the summer which could in turn see him in full flight to begin next season.

Since the advent of the Premier League in 1992, the main reason cited for England's lack of progress on the international stage has been the influx of foreign stars into the country's top flight, with many feeling such imports have come at the expense of homegrown talent receiving top - level opportunities.

But this is an opportunity for them to land a positive as they go at home against the worst away side in the top flight this season.

With the visiting Swansea out of form, this has to be a good opportunity for Burnley to press on even further but they are going to have to snap their winless streak against the Swans in the top flight to pull it off.

Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless opportunities to enhance their stance in the top - flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».

Besides the increased revenues from flights, their growth is also the catalyst for opportunities in and around the facility, including the need for warehousing, light manufacturing and assembly, and related services.

Michael Grimm's request to travel to Europe for a week this spring to pursue an «employment opportunity,» ruling that Grimm is too much of a flight risk.

Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator for NASA's long - lived Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected for flight).

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

The great lack in the American scientific labor market, he and other observers argue, is not top - flight technical talent but attractive career opportunities for the approximately 30,000 scientists and engineers — about 18,000 of them American citizens — who earn PhDs in the U.S. each year.

Their advances in flight control, robotics and miniaturized sensors, are providing an unprecedented opportunity for high - resolution data collection.

«Current women engineers become a flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support for managing multiple life roles,» Fouad said.

Between normal flight - operations meetings and a conference about a possible dune drive for Opportunity, Squyres, the head of science operations for both rovers, managed to wolf down some lunch while he spoke with me about the rovers» successes and future plans.

Over the last two weeks, the flight dynamics and operations teams at ESA have been making a detailed analysis of flight trajectories and timings for Rosetta to deliver the lander at the earliest possible opportunity.

The HOPE Training Program provides an opportunity for a team of early - entry NASA employees to propose, design, develop, build and launch a suborbital flight project over the course of 18 months.

He was Flight Director for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Surface Mission Manager for Phoenix.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.

Although it didn't make the cut this time, the Science Programme Committee decided to maintain the mission as a possible competitor for a future flight opportunity.

This, frequent flight opportunities, and operation that enables rapid changes of science instruments and hands - on in - flight access to the instruments, assure a unique and extensive potential - both for training young instrumentalists and for encouraging and deploying nascent technologies.

NASA has made a variety of flight and suborbital opportunities available to the astronomy community along with grants for data analysis and theoretical studies.

At the same time that MSSS started work on the MGS MOC in the mid-1990s, the company was developing a very small, modular camera system for future spacecraft flight opportunities.

The long flight from Miami with lovely Virgin team gave me the rare opportunity of having time to create a summary for this Miami event.

She missed her opportunity to catch the last flight over the Atlantic — as she puts it, she's even fifteen minutes late for the end of the world — and to help her fix this, Dodge offers to take her to someone he knows who has a plane.

At this weekend's press junket for the romantic comedy Baggage Claim, Collider got the opportunity to chat with actor Djimon Hounsou about his role as the wealthy and exotic businessman, Quinton Jamison, who is one of the exes that flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) decides to track down and reconnect with.

The opportunities for criticism are endless and could tackle subjects like white flight, stereotyping, crime, the War on Drugs, and more.

We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

Efforts to increase school choice have merely resulted in more opportunities for white flight and fractured communities.

Small kitchen items including light equipment, cutlery, plates, bowls etc. (could you use this policy as an opportunity to replace flight trays with proper crockery, for example?

The rule prohibits U.S. airlines operating aircraft with 30 or more passenger seats from allowing their domestic flights to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours at U.S. airports without giving passengers an opportunity to leave the plane.

Specifically, the carrier failed to inform passengers on a flight delayed at the gate for a lengthy period of time of the opportunity to deplane.

Relaxed in the knowledge that day two will bring plenty of opportunity for fast driving on some of Germany's best roads, we stick to our respective steeds for the duration of the journey - Steve Davies in his Alpina, John Hayman in the Boxster S, yours truly in the Tuscan, and Henry Catchpole, who'll be joining us later, on an easyJet flight to Munich.

Specifically, the carrier failed to inform passengers on a flight delayed for a period at the gate with the door open that they had the opportunity to deplane as required under Part 259.

For these flights, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international flight to remain on the tarmac for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to deplaFor these flights, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international flight to remain on the tarmac for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to deplafor lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not permit an international flight to remain on the tarmac for more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to deplafor more than four hours without providing passengers an opportunity to deplane.

Updating the Tarmac Delay Rule: This rulemaking would amend DOT's existing tarmac delay rule, which prohibits airlines from permitting aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours for domestic flights and for more than four hours for international flights without providing passengers an opportunity to deplane.

Specifically, the carrier failed to adhere to the assurance in its contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays that the carrier would not allow an aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours for domestic flights before providing passengers an opportunity to deplane.