Sentences with phrase «airliner for»

do you really believe they just simply shot down a civilian airliner for the fun of it?..

In early 2011, Airbus responded to the Bombardier challenge by announcing a commitment to «re-engine» its low - end airliners for delivery as early as 2016.

Not exact matches

As a long - range but midsized plane, he says, «it's been designed in a way that's going to enable it to utilize midsized airports» for which other long - range airliners are too big, forcing them to rely on larger airports.

He is already busy working to parlay the SpaceShipOne venture into a far bolder effort to create a space airliner, for which tickets have already gone on sale.

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

The moment of truth for the slow - selling airliner looms after just 10 years in service and leaves one of Europe's most visible international symbols hanging by a thread, despite a major airline investment in new cabins unveiled this month.

Islamic State fighters are likely responsible for destroying the Russian airliner over the Sinai.

THE advent of «new generation» airliners could provide opportunities for Perth to grow as an airline destination, says aviation industry commentator Tom Ballantyne.

As fuel is the greatest cost for each industry, the ETFs for shippers ($ SEA) and airliners ($ FAA) will also move based on the direction of oil prices.

Now you may these two and (hopefully) you may arrive to a conclusion that Iranian nuclear bombs can be delivered to the US using some alternative to an ICBM (for example, a commercial airliner).

Still, precedents exist in large aerospace composite manufacturing for the fabrication of structures with complex curves, most notably the nose and front sections of airliners like Boeing's 787.

RFK assassination; Munich Olympics massacre; Teheran US embassy takeover; Pan Am Flight 103; US Marine barracks in Beirut blown up; Pope John Paul II shot; cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked — disabled man murdered; TWA 847 hijacked — US Navy diver murdered; WTC bombed; US embassies Kenya Tanzania bombed; USS Cole bombed 17 crew killed; 4 airliners hijacked to destroy WH, Twin Towers, Pentagon; Daniel Pearl kidnapped / beheaded; 13 US Ft Hood Soldiers murdered; Theo Van Gogh murdered for producing film «Submission»; US Ambassador to Libya assassinated; US Embassy in Cairo ransacked; Toulouse, France, 4 Jewish children murdered

Call me a bigot all you want but you'll never catch me planning to slam an airliner into a building with the goal of killing thousands of civilians just because their country supports a country you hate for religious reasons.

BTW: My NeoPaganism has, like all religions various positions on various issues... It forbids proselytizing regardless of wether it's the door - to - door variety or the carjacked - airliner into cement & lathe variety... It demands I allow other adults to decide their marriage, health care, reproductive and STD - avoidence choices for themselves, because such choices have NO direct bearing on me / mine...

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.

The conviction of three terrorists for a plot to destroy transatlantic airliners has prompted a wave of relief from government ministers, past and present.

Consumer drones pose far less of a threat to high - flying commercial aircraft; a jet airliner is in drone airspace only during takeoff and landing, and is very fast - moving target for a quadcopter.

The same goes for Concorde: the famously graceful supersonic airliner produced booms powerful enough to crack windows.

The troubled search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished in 2014 highlights the need for better technology and coordination, says Paul Marks

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.

A six - month - long series of sonic - boom tests in Oklahoma City in 1964 prompted thousands of complaints and damage claims, a class - action lawsuit, and the beginning of the end for supersonic airliners.

But University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of fiber material for a handheld scanner that can detect small traces of alkane fuel vapor, a valuable advancement that could be an early - warning signal for leaks in an oil pipeline, an airliner, or for locating a terrorist's explosive.

As temperatures in some areas hit 48 °C, the heat becomes a particular problem for some commercial airliners with that maximum operating temperature, Wired reports.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

NASA's most recent workhorse for Operation IceBridge has been a DC - 8 jet airliner, a model that went out of production in the early 1970s.

Meanwhile, the search for the airliner and the 239 people on board continues, with satellite technology being deployed.

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

A leap second may have caused the Russian satellite navigation system to crash for hours, and critics claim the added instants could cause commercial airliners to crash as well.

Even if this round of flight tests bolsters the case for the use of NASA Langley's bug coatings, it will probably be quite some time before they end up on commercial airliners.

It's a platitude that is as true for garage tinkerers as it is for the NASA aeronautical innovators who are helping to design future airliners that will cut fuel consumption, reduce polluting emissions and fly more quietly.

Far better, they argue, for airliners to fly autonomously, under the remote supervision of pilots in an office thousands of kilometres away.

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.

Teams from the University of Chicago Medical Center are getting in shape as they prepare for a once - in - a-lifetime duel between them and a commercial airliner to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Hyde Park.

For example, the Bioenergy Technologies Office has helped a company develop a process for making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runoFor example, the Bioenergy Technologies Office has helped a company develop a process for making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runofor making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runoff.

SMR - 160 protects its important equipment — needed for safe operation and cooling — with a monolithic steel and concrete shield, impregnable to natural disasters, or to a crashing fighter plane or commercial airliner.

No, the key seems to be an early scene, in which Barry, working as a commercial airliner pilot for one the major airlines, finds himself bored in the cockpit.

If you've ever asked yourself how, say, one bully on a subway car could berate his girlfriend for twenty stops without anyone else intervening, or how four men with box cutters could hijack a crowded airliner, this movie answers the question.

9/11 (R for profanity) Fact - based drama recounting the harrowing ordeal of five strangers trapped inside an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower after the building was struck by a hijacked airliner on the morning of September 11, 2001.

First came the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, followed by the crash of a passenger airliner headed for the Dominican Republic, the birthplace of many area residents.

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.

Perhaps drivers will go for 10 hours instead of six, though I'm sure most CT6 owners won't drive more than 200 miles before jumping on an airliner or private jet.

It's like climbing aboard one of Richard Branson's color - splashed Virgin Atlantic airliners; you're forgiven if for a moment you think you've accidentally wandered into a Mayfair nightclub.

It's silent for the first few yards but an electric whine quickly builds up — there are no gears — that reminds us of an airliner winding up for take - off.

Base - model Sedonas have seating for up to eight passengers, but our crew fought to sit in the seven - seat SXL +'s best seats in the van: a pair of reclining captain chairs with footrests (a design Kia's says was inspired by the thrones found in first class cabins in airliners) that replace the standard three - seat second - row.

The gear selector lever, for instance, is a perfect place to rest your wrist whilst using the multimedia system's rotary dial peripheral, along with having the added benefit of looking like a throttle level on an airliner.

With second - row captain's chairs and power - reclining third - row seating, this interior could easily be mistaken for a private suite in the first - class section of a luxury airliner.

There are plenty of daily flights between the two capitals but no discount airlines operating in either of those countries, so I booked a ticket through the large Chilean airliner LAN for US$ 250.

As most people know, Europe is chock - full of discount airliners who can take you from the biggest cities to pretty much anywhere for minimal euros.

For a true budget flyer, it might make more sense to just buy a one - way ticket on a budget airliner to your desired stopover location and then open jaw back from there to North America.