Sentences with phrase «airliner at»

On a moonless night in early March, two tight - lipped travelers climbed almost furtively aboard a transatlantic airliner at New York's International Airport bound for a secret rendezvous in Scotland.

Not exact matches

While liftoff speed is around 170 mph at sea level, a commercial airliner's cruising speed is around 550 mph at 40,000 feet — where the air density is 10x thinner.

Featuring two kitchens that can feed up to 100 people at a time, the gourmet food served is far from the fare served on standard airliners.

At these altitudes, the aircraft will be far above the airspace where commercial airliners fly and free from storms or other weather disturbances, Parikh explained.

An Airbus A380 jet airliner (top), a Boeing 777 jet airliner (L), and the Al Fursan aerobatic team in flight at the 2017 Dubai Airshow.

The fact that millions of people fly both in airliners and in general aviation aircraft each and every day should give you a sense that you can overcome your fear of flying or at least learn to manage it.

At the time, normal airliners were flying in the 10,000 to 20,000 feet range.

In March 2013, a commercial airliner flew within 200 feet of a small drone flying at 1,750 feet over a neighborhood in New York.

MacPherson and Hershberger are at opposite ends of a widening spectrum of sports - minded private - plane owners who go places shunned by the commercial airliners and do so on schedules of their own making.

However, airliners can easily be made immune to this by posting minimal height restrictions, as Ukraine had done in this case - aircraft flying at 33000 feet are completely immune to such weapons, they are significantly out of range.

A passenger airliner taxis out to the runway at one of London's airports and receives clearance to take off.

The focus of the hearing was on access controls at airports and specifically, what security procedures are in place, if any, to ensure employees don't pose an internal threat to the airport and airliners.

«Airliners have been stuck at the same speeds since the 1960s,» says Peter Coen, head of the NASA research team on the case.

The machine, increasingly popular since it was introduced at a California medical center nearly 25 years ago, typically is as heavy as an airliner, surrounded by a shield of concrete and often housed in a building several stories tall.

Ultimately, the Federal Aviation Administration banned supersonic civilian flights over the continental United States, partly explaining why the Concorde went out of production and why airliners have been cruising at roughly the same speed for the past 50 years.

For testing purposes, Boeing has modeled a 100 - passenger airliner capable of cruising at Mach 1.8.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

Steve Osofsky, executive director for wildlife health and health policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society, likened humanity's development to an airliner.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

In the aftermath of the incident aboard a US - bound airliner on Christmas day in which a passenger attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear, governments are rushing to install full - body scanners at airports to thwart similar attacks.

Yet at least in one area — namely computational fluid dynamics, or CFD — the design tools that helped give us the modern airliners flying today are not expected to be up to the challenge in the future without some serious upgrades.

More attempts followed, including Richard Reid's attempt in December 2001 to ignite explosives in his shoes on a flight from Paris to Miami, and at least 10 airliners were targets in a plot involving liquid explosives in 2006, forcing new policies regarding shoes at screening and liquids on airplanes.

Before thousands of spectators at the world's largest air show, Airbus SAS introduced its newest airliner, the A350 XWB.

Those looking for posts / pages on specific topics, please look in the margin at left for links to the series concerning the missing Malaysian airliner (flight MH370); about astronomy and space science; and about orbital debris.

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There are other excellently conceived and executed set pieces in Casino Royale, including a fight on a runway at Miami International Airport that ends with the explosion of a massive airliner, and a final trip to Venice inflected by imagery from Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now.

According to Posey, Poulain figured he could barter a car painted by Calder — who'd already turned two Braniff airliners into «flying mobiles» — for a ride at Le Mans.

Jet airliners take off and land at slower speeds.

On her way to New York, the airliner she is traveling on becomes grounded by heavy fog at Gander Airport in Newfoundland.

So are airliners beginning to not only unbundle, but also beginning to offer quality service at reasonable prices?

After helping myself to the a la carte stand set up at the end of the train car decked in bleached blonde wood paneling and electronic sliding glass doors separating the halves of the car, I settled into my plush, rollback seat that rivaled the size of most seats in first - class airliners.

Roman and Williams has created an enchanting atmosphere that is at once refined and inviting, with a design that evokes the aesthetic of a luxury airliner complete with ipe floors, brass details, custom walnut - and - leather sofas and thoughtfully curated photographs of sky, sea and clouds.

Worldwide political tensions are at a breaking point when a commercial airliner is shot down by a U.S. missile over Eastern Europe, killing all aboard.

In it, Burden is firing a handgun at an airliner.]

He fired a pistol at a passing airliner.

Typically at cruise in a modern jet airliner these are approximately equal which minimises total drag.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

China Post: Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilizes air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.

If you look at any of the posts about the missing Malaysian airliner on my website, you will find that generally I am a person who favours cock - up theories over conspiracy theories.

The clientele for supersonic airliners are the tiny group of people who value their time at $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 per hour.

And we think this vehicle can be constructed in a way that is as safe as a commercial airliner, which is where it needs to be in order to be applied at scale in megacities across the world.»

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