Sentences with phrase «break flight records»

Elsie, Mabel and Ruth were not the only women looking to break flight records; they were constantly aware of and in competition with others who were about to beat them to it.

Not exact matches

Over the last few years, GoPro's users have captured, uploaded, and viewed a vast library of previously impossible footage containing everything from record - breaking BMX jumps to back - breaking encounters with Mother Nature to the flight of a seagull.

In July, after a record - breaking 117 hours and 52 minute - long solo flight from Japan to Hawaii, the plane — a one - seater with a 72 - meter wingspan — had to be grounded to fix its damaged battery pack.

He says that despite «record - breaking revenues» the executives have failed to update the airline's «critically outdated IT infrastructure and flight operations.»

Couple facts to back you up dude; Wenger and David Dein broke our own transfer record on a winger after a conversation on a plane flight, that is how Henry told Wenger that he would like to play for him again... Dein made it happen.

Wenger and Dein broke our own transfer record and was only # 4mil short of the English transfer record AFTER A CONVERSATION, Henry spoke to Wenger on a flight and it was that convo that got Wenger to ask Dein for him and Dein got him... Didn't mess around with # XX mil and # 1 bids, he just got the player!

After boasting the best defensive record in Europe's five top flights with two conceded goals in seven matches up until the first international break in late September, Dortmund conceded 22 goals in just 10 league games up until the winter break.

Their last appearance in the top flight was a record breaking one for the wrong reasons after collecting the lowesr amount of points for a Premier League side in the 2007/08 season.

13 clubs in England's top flight even broke their transfer record in the summer to show how significant the new TV deal is worth and how important club owners know it is to stay in the Premier league for the next three years at least.

This time last year our No 1 in the No 33 shirt broke David James» Premier League clean - sheet record with his 170th in the top flight.

They did work hard, of course, that's why they are where they are, and why that win at the Liberty Stadium broke the all - time top - flight record for consecutive victories.

A child prodigy, he made his professional debut at just 15 years of age for Independiente in the Argentina top flight, breaking the record of future father in law Diego Maradona, and made a big money move to Spain in 2006.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record - breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance.

Less lift means an aircraft can carry less weight, but it also means an airplane — especially a weighty one — needs a longer runway in hot weather, a restriction that can lead to flight delays or cancellations like those caused by record - breaking heat in Phoenix last month.

In the series of flights that the craft will begin in mid-August, it will fly to only 15,000 — 18,000 metres — in part because of weather conditions — but this could still break the glider altitude record of 15,445 metres, set by an earlier Perlan model.

And in 2006, he and the US adventurer Steve Fossett proved the concept with their record - breaking flight on Perlan 1, a modified conventional glider.

This week, we're all buzzing with news of astronaut Scott Kelly's record - breaking flight on the International Space Station.

; RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the record - breaking box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa's number one box office star, Leon Schuster; THE LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler - Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book of the same title.

It was the age of the American hero: Charles Lindbergh's record - breaking flight across the Atlantic occurred in 1927, and aviators shattered records in the following years.

The year is 1927, and Amelia Earhart has not yet made her record - breaking cross-Atlantic flight.

The new Cirque du Soleil touring show TORUK - The First Flight inspired by James Cameron's record - breaking movie AVATAR.

The group predicts a record breaking 29.9 million passengers to board international flights.

Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.

André Borschberg has broken the world record for the longest solo flight aboard the Solar Impulse 2.