Sentences with phrase «airport runway where»

Fraser Island, measuring over 120 kilometers (75 mi) long and 24 kilometers (15 mi) wide also houses the country's only all sand highway / airport runway where you can drive 80 kilometers an hour on the beach only a few feet from the crashing waves.

The Brits were even so kind as to give us access to an active airport runway where we were able to achieve an impressive 145 - mph straight - line speed, which the Sport handled with all the stability and calm of a vehicle at highway speed.

Not exact matches

I represent a constituency with Manchester airport partially in it; I understand all about the local pressures — but you've got to as a nation be able to overcome those and make a sensible decision about where that extra runway capacity in the South East should go.»

Rival candidate Gareth Thomas said there should be extra runways at both Heathrow and Gatwick while Tessa Jowell said she would wait for the Davies Commission report on airport expansion before saying where it should take place.

At some airports — especially those with long runways in temperate regions and at low altitude where the air is relatively dense, like New York City's John F. Kennedy, London's Heathrow, and Paris's Charles de Gaulle airports — impacts should be minimal, the researchers report today in Climatic Change.

Some aircraft with lower temperature tolerances will far worse than others, and certain airports — those with shorter runways, in hotter parts of the world or at higher elevations, where the air is already thinner — will suffer more.

It is why most weather stations are at airports where they became compromised by heat from runways, jet engines, and in many cases the expanding urban heat island (UHI).

This how data is cherry picked and has been mentioned before on WUWT that many temperature monitoring stations are near airport runways, where the black body radiation is higher and the heat from the jet engines of the planes is not taken into account.

Atmospheric conditions like fog, rain, low pressure intensifies the noise where it sounds like an outdoor steel mill (lived in Chicago near them as a kid) or like living next to a major airport runway.