Sentences with phrase «airliners fly»

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.

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.

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.

Local private airliner flying Jakarta — Denpasar route confirmed similar situation.

With New Zealand's government declaring itself to actively become the world's first carbon neutral nation with sustainability underpinning the «four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood,» Air New Zealand is planning to launch the first test of a commercial 747 airliner flying partially on biofuels, as part of a deal between the airline, engine maker Rolls - Royce and aircraft manufacturer Boeing to study greener flying, with the first flight slated to take off late 2008 or early 2009 (without passengers).

The mirage of safety and invincibility we feel upon a major airliner flying to a vacation destination had faded.

Not exact matches

Airlines are warring over wealthy travelers, spending millions on plush first - class cabins that look more like flying hotel rooms than seats on a commercial airliner.

To comply with South Korean military rules, the airliner had to fly some distance out to sea to avoid flying over the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, the unification ministry said.

How is running a franchise like flying an airliner?

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.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

My relationship to computers is roughly comparable to that of a caveman trying to fly a jet airliner.

The FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee has recommended more than 50 changes to safety rules, including weakening a law which requires pilots to reach 1500 training hours before obtaining a license to fly commercial passenger airliners.

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.

Similarly, an ethics probe found that Hunter used campaign cash to fly his children's pet rabbit on a commercial airliner.

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.

Concerns over the Dreamliner kicked off over a decade ago when Boeing decided to create a civil airliner that would be both lighter than any of its previous jets and fly with leaner - burning engines to cut the plane's emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides.

Computers fly our airliners and run most of the world's banking, communications, retail and manufacturing systems.

As we now know, the shuttle flew, the airliner did not.

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.

But future aircraft designs routinely flying during the 2030's may look very different from today's airliners in order to deliver on the promises of reduced fuel burn, noise and emissions.

Eastbound, half the flying time took place in the upper troposphere, because airliners took advantage of the strong tailwind provided by the jet stream, which is strongest just below the tropopause.

This technology could make supersonic airliners commercially viable: The Concorde flew only transatlantic routes because of the noise.

Here the focus is on blended - wing - body craft, where the structure of a conventional airliner is stretched into a single flying wing, generating more lift and less drag while using less fuel.

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

He also seems fascinated with flying vehicles this time, as the camera often just turns up toward a passing helicopter or speeding airliner.

Based on true events as told by Port Authority police officers Sgt. John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno (played here by Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, respectively), the story takes place on September 11, 2001 when two commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center.

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.

The carrier flew Airbus A340 airliners from the city - state to New York's Newark airport — a journey of over 15,000 kilometres — from 2004 to 2013, when the service was suspended to cut costs.

A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette's interest in aerial views, after which she began flying in commercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

So the drag on an airliner is around twice what you might think (trust me on this, I've spent 45 years flying sailplanes and 36 years designing and manufacturing instruments for them.

The entire CRU - type calculation requires 65 lines of python code (by comparison, a modern airliner requires upwards of a million lines of code to fly).

# 27 Straighten up and fly right... «The only way to get from Los Angeles to London is by carbon - spewing jet airliner.

I think there is a distinct difference between the impact on CO2 emissions from an individual flying in an airliner or private jet.