Sentences with phrase «airliners take»

Jet airliners take off and land at slower speeds.

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.

The first brought down a Russian MetroJet airliner taking tourists home from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people onboard.

Not exact matches

United CEO Oscar Munoz testifies before a House committee hearing on steps the airliner will take to prevent another dragging incident as what happened with Dr. David Dao.

By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.

After a back and forth debate, Schear eventually said he would move the toddler so that the plane could take off, but an agent said it was now too late, saying that the family would either have to exit the plane or the crew would have to force every passenger off of the airliner.

The case took another turn in October, when Bombardier announced that it would move production of the CSeries airliner to Alabama in a partnership with French jet maker Airbus.

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

HAVANA >> A 39 - year - old airliner with 110 people aboard crashed and burned in a cassava field just after taking off from the Havana airport Friday, leaving three survivors in Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades, officials said.

Outcome: Even after a similar bombing of a French airliner over Africa in 1989, changes in domestic aviation were slow to take hold.

Catching commercial airliners in giant nets never took off.

«Like airliners you don't have to be efficient when you're landing and taking off; you just need to be slow so you don't break anything,» says Palmer.

Scientific American spoke with Schaan about al Qaeda's continued attempts to take down airliners traveling to the U.S., the terrorist organization's focus on exploiting cultural norms to reach their targets and the most successful approaches to stopping terrorist plots.

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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.

Dec. 25, 2009: Taking a page out of Richard Reid's book, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abulmutallab attempted to bring down a passenger airliner using an article of clothing.

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.

Taking a page from the glass cockpits of modern airliners, Audi's new digital gauge cluster, or «virtual cockpit», allows the driver to not only configure the information displayed to suit their own preferences, but also offers a massive, Google Earth view of the car's current location.

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.

Soon we are taxiing to the terminal past Russian - made Cubana airliners, barely up to the challenge of taking to the skies.

China Airlines has taken delivery of its first A350 - 900, becoming the ninth airline to operate the world's newest and most efficient twin engine wide - body airliner.

Asiana Airlines of South Korea has taken delivery of its first A350 - 900, becoming the twelfth airline to operate the world's newest and most efficient twin engine widebody airliner.

Take advantage of new routes established by major airliners like American and Southwest to meet the increasing demands of honeymooners departing from Dallas, Miami, Houston and other major U.S. and Canada cities.

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.

Those in the Air Force patrolling our skies know on any given day they could be forced to shoot down an airliner full of innocent people if they believe that airliner may be controlled by terrorists who may use it to take even more lives.

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).

However, the Convention also sought to balance the rights of the passenger by safeguarding them against injury and death where the airliner had not taken all measures available to them.

This fall, Apple's giving you a choice: get a seat on the best piston airliner ever, or take a chance on jet engines.»