Sentences with phrase «as a test pilot»

As we reported here on Inc.com a few years back, Kiwi inventor and entrepreneur Glenn Martin has been tinkering with his design for a personal jetpack in his garage for more than 30 years, using his wife as a test pilot.

After the war, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became NASA, as a test pilot, flying over 200 different aircraft, including the famous X-15, which traveled at 4,000 miles per hour.

The product was first introduced in March in limited distribution as a test pilot.

A good example of an airline resume is: To utilize my knowledge, skills and experience gained through my previous job as a test pilot, to learn advance techniques of AFSC level.

As a test pilot at a private company, I had a crucial responsibility of testing airworthiness and safety of aircrafts that were later used for public transportation and military operations.

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BMW AG's new U.S. subscription pilot will put drivers into the brand's top performance cars for as much as $ 3,700 a month as the German automaker tests a new ownership model with its most exclusive customers.

Workers in safety - critical jobs will still be tested, and some, such as airline pilots and truck drivers, are governed by federal rules.

The latter two milestones were first set by former Air Force test pilot Joseph Kittinger in 1960, who served as Baumgartner's mentor throughout five years of meticulous preparation.

Therefore, it gives an idea of the g - forces on André Brännström, Saab test pilot, as he performs extreme aerobatics with the JAS - 39 Gripen C light single - engine multirole fighter aircraft.

As executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplacAs executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplacas a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplace.

The announcement came shortly after the California DMV revoked the registration of the 16 test vehicles the company deployed as part of the pilot.

After pilot testing at around 400 companies, the product, which can be downloaded as a phone app or accessed via a browser, was formally launched in November 2014.

As part of its own pilot, called «Drive Me,» Volvo will be handing out 100 XC90s with the latest autonomous technology the company has developed to be tested on the roads of Sweden.

We start by hiring the right teammates through a rigorous process that includes numerous interviews, as well as pre-employment testing for our frontline teammates and our pilots.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

At the moment Finland, the Netherlands and Canada are planning tests of the UBI (in the case of the latter, the province of Ontario will be pilot testing a UBI in an unnamed region this fall) and the idea is gaining traction in Britain as well.

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

She said the company is testing its product with employers, but declined to provide details as those pilots are ongoing.

Five pilot areas - Blackburn, Bradford, Peterborough, Walsall and the London borough of Waltham Forest - will develop local integration plans allowing new strategies to be tested as the programme develops.

Implementation of the second phase of the program will be approached in a similar way as the first phase (i.e., adding to the test already done with an extensive pilot test in real IKEA settings before it is presented and ready for implementation in all markets).

As an industry leader in certified organic, kosher, and halal dairy ingredient production, DairiConcepts owns and operates eight manufacturing plants, two development laboratories, and a pilot testing plant located throughout the U.S.. All plants are SQF Level 3 - certified.

This will provide an amazing opportunity for pilots to soar amongst some of the most beautiful mountains in the world and to test their skills in a mountain flying environment where they must learn to fly in the strong lift as well as sink, in addition to choosing the correct speed to fly and planning their route of retreat!

Two years after the war, as a Navy test pilot, his P - 80 Shooting Star fighter jet would crash on takeoff in a Panamanian jungle, costing him both arms.

«When we pilot - tested, they accepted the turkey and chicken products just as well as the all - beef or all - pork.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

As part of disaster relief recovery, USDA granted free status for all students through September, giving Purvis time to apply for Community Eligibility which was granted in October of SY 2016 - 17, and by January she was piloting «Breakfast on the Go» for feedback and testing.

Those are, I think, serious issues that groups like the Rudd Center should be discussing with representives of school food service professionals, who, as we speak, are swarming over Capitol Hill trying to convince their lawmakers that this particular provision of the child nutrition re-authorization should be put on hold and pilot tested.

Based on the published results, Legacy is now being pilot tested in a variety of community settings, such as the Administration for Children and Families» Early Head Start, Health Resources and Services Administration's Healthy Start, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Project LAUNCH, the American Academy of Pediatrics» pediatric primary care, and Tulsa Educare.

As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permiAs a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permias those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permias part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.

The book does contain a lot of implementation details like setting it up as a pilot or test to start out.

We pilot tested scale validity in English - speaking (n = 90) and Spanish - speaking (n = 45) low - income mothers (median age of infant: 6 wk) by presenting the faces as 6 individual unlabeled cards and asking the women to place the cards in order from no pain to maximum pain.

This was the key reason why Defra would not test any of the badgers killed during the pilot culls for TB, as they knew the results would show a very low level of disease.

«It boggles the mind as to why the feds have failed to include Griffiss or any Northeast test site on this national pilot,» Brindisi said in a news release sharing the letter.

«For the U.S. Department of Transportation not to select our UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport as one of the participants in its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program isn't just extremely disappointing, it's quite frankly baffling,» Picente said.

It's happening in Finland, where a pilot program is being launched to test what's known as a «universal basic income.»

As Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams has announced pilots to test approaches on early identification and intervention for children with emotional and mental health problems.

Sen. Charles Schumer says Central New York could become a national research center for remotely - piloted aircraft if the FAA chooses the region as one of six national test sites.

Twelve Erie County deputies have volunteered to test body - worn cameras as part of a two - month pilot program that could lead to as many as 100 deputies routinely wearing body cams while on patrol.

Beginning next year, New York City will test a pilot program limiting curbside delivery in certain high - traffic commercial zones during peak hours — and will also crack down on drivers who block intersections — as part of the mayor's five - part plan to curb congestion.

Three Long Island schools were selected as among the best in two states — New York and Colorado — in a pilot program honoring campuses that «put students, not test scores, first.»

«We are proud of our industry leading capabilities such as our unparalleled State investments, cutting - edge research in both UAS technology and UAS policy, and our proven New York test site team all of which are the basis of our comprehensive UAS integration pilot - program proposal,» Major General Marke F. (Hoot) Gibson (ret), CEO of the NUAIR Alliance, contended in the release.

Ortiz cited recent media reports of pilots flying drunk as the reason for his bill, including incidents in which an American Airlines pilot flunked two sobriety tests before his flight from Detroit and an Alaska Airlines pilot who flew a commercial plane from California to Oregon and back again while reportedly drunk.

There are additional requirements, such as that you are vetted by the Transportation Security Administration, get an RPC (Remote Pilot Certificate) with a small UAS rating, are at least 16 years of age, pass a recurrent aeronautical knowledge test every 24 months, and more.

Linkov, who test drove the 2012 Focus, says the driving experience at low speeds resembles the lurching feeling experienced as a passenger with a driver learning to pilot a manual transmission.

We're now pursuing funding to expand our testing with commercial pilot projects as well as start proving utility in greenhouse horticulture,» Begtrup commented.

Many of the same people who usually earn spots with NASA (such as military test pilots) should still have an advantage in the new order, but the combination of multiple companies and flexible regulations may create opportunities for a broader group of would - be astronauts.

The first Solar Impulse plane (known as HB - SIA) took to the skies in 2010 in the hands of a professional test pilot.

After years of research and development, and tests by general aviation pilots in Alaska and air transport carriers in the Ohio River Valley, the FAA in 2005 declared ADS — B to be a safe radar alternative and pegged the technology as a crucial component of the agency's plans to by 2020 upgrade the national airspace system — a program known as Next - Generation Air Transportation System.

Honeywell will test the technology in two of its planes as well as install ADS — B systems in JetBlue Airways and Alaska Airlines aircraft for pilots from those companies to evaluate.