Sentences with phrase «jumbo jet x-prize»

A short time after takeoff, the jumbo jet exploded and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 aboard.

The sound of rain falling all around you, an arrow or bullet whizzing by your head, or the panning effect of a jumbo jet flying over, these are the kind of head - spinning, duck - for - cover audio experiences that create a more convincing audio experience.

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We don't live in the part of the atmosphere where radiation is dominant unless you're flight crew on a jumbo jet.

Thus, building gas - electric hybrids using the new advanced polymer composites, which are being introduced by Boeing in its new 787 Dreamliner jumbo jet, can cut the remaining 20 percent of fuel use by another half, for a total reduction of 90 percent.

Social media, 24 - hour news channels, and embedded reporters feed us an avalanche of information with breaking news reports of every crisis from a missing jumbo jet to a Congress that is immobilized by its own dogma.

Conflicts with the Wilkersons, the nature of a mysterious downed jumbo jet, and various other dangling narrative threads will remain dangling.

Take on the role of the captain of a troubled jumbo jet carrying infected passengers intent on bringing the plane out of the sky, or pit yourself against hundreds of zombies in the interior of a jumbo jet or even walk along the outside as you fight to regain control as one of the passengers in this innovative and interactive gaming experience like no other.

Oh, I hear your whining — «But I need food, shelter, clothing, a car, a house... a private jumbo jet!»

It's wonderfully simple and really, could there possibly be anything more brilliant than pulling an entire jumbo jet out of the sky with your teeth?

The video depicts players setting up barricades and small forms of mobile cover, flanking and firing upon would be hostage - takers in the confines of a jumbo jet.

The mainland carrier will put its new flagship «Jumbo Jet» on the New York route from January — full story»

Watch for the big blue jumbo jet to touch down this summer!

There's nothing that excites me more than having a plane ticket in hand and seeing a jumbo jet ready to take me on my next...

The episode featured an American couple defying the laws of physics by arriving at the tiny airfield in San Pedro in a jumbo jet while showing B - roll footage of the Philip Goldson International Airport in Belize City on the mainland.

, overtaking sounding like a Jumbo Jet and frightening the hell out of me again before disappearing around the next corner!

Joining Peter Greenberg will be Scott McCartney, Travel Editor for The Wall Street Journal, describing some of the outlandish amenities you can find on a private jumbo jet, including showers and multiple rooms.

Featuring an entire jumbo jet, army vehicles, emergency vehicles, a submarine and much more, this museum is a treasure trove of vehicular delights and is well worth a visit.

Dividend paying stocks have a good track record of returning value, but what if the unforeseen happens, like some jumbo jet crashing into a building.

Over the Indian Ocean a Malaysia Airline jumbo jet drops from radar.

A jumbo jet takes off from New York en route to Vancouver with 246 people on board.

Flying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Florida.

It wore an optional winglike appendage on its rear that seems bigger than anything this side of a 767 jumbo jet.

In 1970, Boeing introduced the world's first jumbo jet.

First calculated by Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, the summit of Everest, at 29,035 ft, is only just lower than the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet — between 30,000 ft and 36,000 ft.

With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

We're introduced to Barry (Cruise) while he's sitting in the cockpit of a jumbo jet.

A round southwest Ontario, St. Thomas is well known for two things: as the place where Jumbo the elephant (who lent his name posthumously to the jumbo jet) was killed accidentally by a train, and for its psychiatric hospital.

But the German accent she is forced to wrangle is hammier than a jumbo jet full of wurst.

Turkey now has a bizarre new dive site: an A300 jumbo jet, which was sunk (intentionally) off its south - west coast this week.

My lashes were completed with Clinique Chubby Lash Mascara in Jumbo Jet.

Beyond the jumbo jet sitting at the nearest gate, across a wide stretch of tarmac and behind another row of smaller planes was a long low building I had never noticed before.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand at John F. Kennedy International Airport when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday morning.

The 150,000 - pound shuttle Enterprise never made it into orbit, but it did fly in tests on top of a 747 jumbo jet.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flight.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

A 2010 Stanford University study found that these domes act like pressure cookers, exacerbating pollution's harmful health effects, and may already be responsible for up to 1,000 excess deaths across the country, the equivalent of two jumbo jet crashes every single year.

Each of the reactor's toroidal field coils weighs as much as a fully laden jumbo jet, and there are 18 of them in total.

A bee and a jumbo jet: common sense would tell you that the tiny insect couldn't possibly cause any troubles for the massive airplane, right?

We're better off with a duopoly, and in fact we get duopoly precisely because vigorous competition between the jumbo jet giants keeps everyone else out.»

Ferrying space shuttles across the country is just one of the very odd jobs given to the workhorse jumbo jet

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name

«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.

Pence, who flew to the military facility with his wife, second lady Karen Pence, aboard a C - 17 military jumbo jet, praised the troops» service in helping combat Islamic State fighters in nearby Syria.

Cons: Keeping a child confined to a cramped airline seat can be difficult enough without adding the extra time that comes with preboarding — on a jumbo jet, this could be up to a half hour or more.

Apparently we're still favourites to capture him, but its gone from as loud as a jumbo jet directly above you, to as quiet as a mouse within a matter of days.