Sentences with phrase «airplane passengers as»

Boeing, which funded some of his research, is interested in using the energy generated from airplane passengers as they sit, get up and adjust in their seats to power some of the plane's functions such as overhead lights in cabins.

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The new rules generally add the ability for passengers to use their smartphones, e-readers, electronic games and tablets during taxi, takeoff and landing as long as they have the device in airplane mode with cellular service disabled.

Reportedly, passengers were offered up to $ 800, in addition to overnight accommodations, as an incentive to give up their seats in the over-booked airplane.

A more efficient way to board would have only as many passengers in the airplane as can put their luggage away without interfering with each other.

Demand for jet fuel has increased over the last two years as the global economy has strengthened and airplane passenger traffic has risen, said Sandy Fielden, director of oil and products research at Morningstar Commodities in Austin, Texas.

Fellow passengers who are unhappy about the disruption may forget that you have as much right to be on the airplane as they do.

Complete with ticket counter, control tower, restaurant, spinning airplane, as well as a baggage car and refueling station, kids have everything they need to take passengers through the entire airport experience.

Solar Impulse's technological achievements are exciting, but the limitations of its speed and carrying capacity, as well as its sensitivity to wind and weather conditions, mean we won't be seeing solar - powered passenger airplanes anytime soon, if ever.

«Larger animals have longer lifespans and travel farther distances, just as passenger airplanes have been designed to do.

«Today we don't see how we could put 200 passengers in a solar airplane,» says Bertrand Piccard, the first man to fly a balloon around the world nonstop as well as chairman and co-pilot of this effort.

Global warming could force airplanes to carry a lighter load — such as fewer passengers — on each flight.

Bumping, also known as «denied boarding,» happens when there are more passengers scheduled to fly on an airplane than available seats.

The guide is structured in much the same sequence as a passenger would plan for a trip: the circumstances he or she must consider prior to traveling, what will be encountered at the airport, and what to expect in the transitions from airport to airplane, on the plane, and then airplane to airport.

There are carriers tailored for safe travel on airplanes; tethers, car seats and ramps that make road trips with pets safer for both the pet and other passengers; and products that make traveling more comfortable for the pet, such as travel bowls, beds and calming aids.

You can also take some soft carriers into the passenger part of an airplane with you (never let your cat be transported in the outside luggage compartment of a plane, as this is too traumatizing and unhealthy for your cat).

As a professional airline pilot, I wonder how he'd react if a climate scientist without so much as a private pilot's license were to barge into the cockpit during a landing approach and shove Simon aside proclaiming «I know more about flying than you, I'm going to land this airplane with its 300 passengers!»As a professional airline pilot, I wonder how he'd react if a climate scientist without so much as a private pilot's license were to barge into the cockpit during a landing approach and shove Simon aside proclaiming «I know more about flying than you, I'm going to land this airplane with its 300 passengers!»as a private pilot's license were to barge into the cockpit during a landing approach and shove Simon aside proclaiming «I know more about flying than you, I'm going to land this airplane with its 300 passengers!»?

They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied.

Years ago, while on a search in northern Canada for a missing US private airplane, the brother of a missing passenger flew as a spotter.

White clouds have an albedo comparable to a snow field as airplane passengers often observe.

I propose we further the evolution of science by my 1) leasing an airplane 2) taking you along as a passenger and 3) I toss you out the door at 10,000 feet, without a parachute.

No, you don't need a driver's license to travel in the USA on airplane, river boat, as a passenger on a train or a bus, or a taxi, or as a hitchhiker, or on bicycle or on foot.

This rider can provide an additional amount of death benefit coverage to the policy beneficiary if the insured dies due to accidental injuries that occur while he or she is riding as a fare - paying passenger on a common carrier, such as an airplane, a bus, or a train.

This benefit covers for loss of life, limb or sight that is a direct result of a covered accident that occurs during a trip while the insured is entering, onboard, or exiting from a licensed Common Carrier (such as an airplane, a bus, a train, a ship, or a taxi) licensed for the transportation of passengers for hire.

Some plans include a cap on the benefit with payouts doubling for a fare - paying passenger traveling on a Common Carrier such as an airplane or train.

If you are injured or killed in an accident while riding as a fare paying passenger on a bus, train, airplane, ferry, taxi, or other type of common carrier, you are entitled to double the face amount of your AD&D Insurance policy.

Common carrier benefits will pay double the accidental death benefit if death occurs while riding as a fare - paying passenger on a common carrier such as a boat, bus or airplane

Carry a baby down the aisle of an airplane and passengers look at you as if you were toting a machine gun.