Sentences with phrase «aircraft carrier with»

It's depressing that so little has been done to mitigate things — it's like turning around an aircraft carrier with a paddle.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the zombies won't learn how to swim.

President Trump will attend a dinner Thursday aboard the decommissioned aircraft carrier with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia.

The Super Hornet can return to an aircraft carrier with a larger load of unspent fuel and munitions than the original Hornet.

The allies had two aircraft carriers with 128 aircraft and the Japanese had three carriers with 127 aircraft.

To an extent he is balancing apples with pears and bananas, aircraft carriers with housing benefit and bobbies on the beat.

Not exact matches

These factors include, but are not limited to, the prospects of entering into agreements with existing or other carriers to fly new aircraft, ongoing negotiations between SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet and their major partners regarding their contractual obligations, uncertainties regarding operation of new aircraft, the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots, the impact of regulatory issues such as pilot rest rules and qualification requirements, and the ability to obtain aircraft financing.

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The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

Currently the J - 15 launches using a ski - jump arrangement as with Russian and soon UK aircraft but at least one modified J - 15 was photographed with a catapult bridle on its nose wheel for land - based testing of a new magnetic catapult system likely to be used on the next Chinese aircraft carrier, the yet - to - be-named CV - 18, Type 002 aircraft carrier of entirely Chinese indigenous design to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

The carrier is intended to have up to 40 aircraft, with the F - 35 intended to be the main fixed - wing jet for the ship.

Its new regional carrier, Encore, began service this year with four Bombardier Q400 turboprops, and will add roughly one aircraft to its fleet every month through to 2015.

The US Navy ended President Donald Trump's trip to Asia with a bang by having three aircraft carriers drill with South Korean and Japanese navy ships in the Pacific in a clear message to North Korea.

Lewelling stood in a room with a mock - up of the UCLASS, a highly competitive Navy contract that would put a UAV on an aircraft carrier.

The US Navy rarely gets to train with two aircraft carriers working together, and the last time three came together was 10 years ago.

Foursquare had launched in 2009 with enough hyperbole to buoy an aircraft carrier.

These carriers configure their aircraft with high - density seating configurations and offer minimal amenities during the flight, and as a result, they incur lower unit costs than we do.

Two F / A -18 E Super Hornets from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 overfly with extended landing gear and hook (hence, in landing configuration) the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an air power demonstration taking place over the flattop as the it returns from an eight - month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

The footage below shows a recovery to the carrier in low visibility conditions of a Super Hornet (or «Rhino» as the aircraft is nicknamed aboard supercarriers) with the VFA - 143 «Pukin Dogs» (based on the badge that can be seen on the pilot's flight helmet).

They are the visuals, perhaps several miles» worth of Pentagon - approved operational footage of destroyers and aircraft carriers, bombers, fighters, and other weapons systems in action, produced in concert with the defense contractors who profit from their manufacture and who would love nothing more than to gain additional appropriations from Congress based on cool - looking footage.

Writers who misquote him can usually expect a personal and pointed note from Captain Harry, as he is called by many who still recognize the naval rank with which he was retired in 1945 after active duty on an aircraft carrier.

It had begun with the first minister at a school in Edinburgh (reading from the children's book, We're Going on a Bear Hunt) and the prime minister visiting the Rosyth Dockyard with the none - too - subtle backdrop of a half - constructed aircraft carrier «This is a success story that the whole of the United Kingdom can take great pride in»).

He is an active - duty U.S. naval officer whose experience includes operational tours with Helicopter Squadron Five aboard the aircraft carrier USS EISENHOWER (from 2007 - 2009), as an analyst at U.S. Africa Command (2009 - 2012) and Commander Task Force SIX SEVEN (2012 - present).

The region has also seen a rise in high - tech militarization, with rapid development in areas ranging from aircraft carriers and submarines to cyber-espionage; this is likely to further increase due to the 2011 US «pivot to Asia» and military surge.

Ahead of the President's visit, Nigerian officials will be meeting with Boeing, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world to discuss Nigeria's National Carrier Project, while on agriculture, they will meet with large equipment manufacturers with focus on harvesting and post harvesting equipment, spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement on Friday.

Today defence secretary Philip Hammond said sticking with the coalition's original plan would lead to a three - year delay in the re-establishment of Britain's aircraft carrier capability, however.

Among the big ticket items being considered are two new aircraft carriers costing # 5.4 billion - with concern that cancellation of one or both of them may actually cost more money than continuing with the building programme.

A bare majority of those polled accepted that the government's decision to push ahead with the ill - fated aircraft carrier project was the right one given the circumstances.

The spokesperson added: «Difficult decisions had to be taken to deal with the MoD's financial blackhole but we are moving towards an enhanced future carrier strike capability with the new Joint Strike Fighter arriving at the same time as the next generation of aircraft carriers.

I don't know much about China but I noticed that in many areas (space exploration, aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons...), they seem more interested in demonstrating and maintaining a basic capability than really competing with other powers.

Many things have not been touched upon, like: a cash for access scandal with David Cameron's chief fundraiser offering dinner for donors at Downing Street; the sacking of soldiers by email; aircraft carriers without aircraft; Andrew Mitchell effing and blinding at police officers; and the shambolic handling of the west coast railway contract that will cost taxpayers # 40 million.

Just as the US military projects power by sending an aircraft carrier towards North Korea every now and again, News International reminds its rivals that it sells one in three of the newspapers bought in Britain this morning by being seen, regularly, with the prime minister of the day and his senior Ministers.

Trump plans to land at JFK airport, then speak aboard the decommissioned USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in the Hudson, and meet with the Australian Prime Minister.

To make this possible, Boeing has looked to the design of aircraft carrier jets in hopes of building planes with fold - up wings.

Lt. Burt Baskin was a World War II Navy quartermaster running a PX at a base on the South Pacific island of New Hebrides when he made a fateful swap with a supply officer off a visiting aircraft carrier.

What the Department of Defense spends dealing with corrosion each year would buy two brand new aircraft carriers or a few dozen fighter jets.

In 1951, the USS Independence aircraft carrier was loaded up with explosives, towed off the coast of San Francisco, California, and sunk.

But aircraft carriers have sailors with scrapers and paintbrushes.

Gerry is loathe to come out of retirement (the guy really likes his pancakes) but with the help of a daring helicopter rescue he and his family are deposited on an aircraft carrier, perhaps the planet's only safe zone, and Gerry is essentially blackmailed into accompanying a young scientist to South Korea, where it's thought the zombie - making began.

The undead invaders have nearly taken over the world and there are not many safe spots to flee to, but through Gerry's former job connections with his former boss (Fana Mokoena) his brood are brought by helicopter from the roof of a Newark building to safety on a U.N. command center aircraft carrier, based in the Atlantic.

He's just a smart, resourceful, and efficient guy with a family at home (well, on an aircraft carrier, anyway) that he'd like very much to get back to.

The Lanes are evacuated to a UN aircraft carrier, but their places are dependent on Gerry assisting with the investigation into the cause — and with any luck, the cure — to the undead plague, a job that will take him everywhere from Korea to Israel.

Leaving his wife and kids in the belly of the aircraft carrier, he boards a plane and heads for South Korea with an eager young scientist (Elyes Gabel).

In fact, an aircraft carrier of sorts — a vast floating military base with the ability to make itself invisible — provides the setting for much of The Avengers.

There is already one «Zilla teaser poster online and it's been followed with another teaser image and some concept art of the beast threatening an aircraft carrier.

A man nearly crashes a plane into an aircraft carrier deck after a close encounter with enemy pilots.

Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) runs a super secret agency (with the coolest aircraft carrier ever) that has been making plans for something like this.

«Large entrenched bureaucracies like public education have something in common with aircraft carriers: they never turn around quickly.

On the issue of rearward visibility (or lack thereof): «You look back there, and it's like the landing deck of an aircraft carrier, with an abrupt dropoff at the far end.