Sentences with phrase «cargo planes»

While they are capable of looking after complete maintenance and repair of aircrafts, some employers would want them to take care of ordering inventory of aircraft parts, or cargo planes.

Worked regularly at two different airports loading cargo planes and unloading passenger planes.

Amazon's sending its own fleet of Boeing 767 - 300 cargo planes into flight, giving it more complete control over shipping and delivery.

You can expect to see Prime Air cargo planes provide an immediate boost upgrade to Amazon's delivery process, unlike than the company's delivery drone program that was announced in 2013, and still hasn't reached fruition.

The cargo planes will provide supplemental shipping capacity for Prime Day orders and additional flexibility as Amazon's Prime subscription service grows.

Historically, residents of Midwest City have contributed much to the U.S. Airforce and the safety of our country; nearby factories staffed by citizens of Midwest City produced more than half of the C - 47 cargo planes used in World War II.

What we would need, to continue economic growth as conventionally defined, is transportation, including the big stuff (container ships, passenger and cargo planes, gargantuan dump trucks and open - pit mining shovels, you get the idea), construction, roads and bridges, manufacturing, all without FF, literally down to the ground.

Returning to the high middle ages, the setting is traditional enough, as is the battle royale premise: 100 players start the game with a basic unit, which they will then drop somewhere on an island (period - authentic trebuchets will replace parachutes and cargo planes).

With Hurricane Jose threatening, the prime minister issued a mandatory evacuation order for Barbuda on Friday 8th September, the very day the first of three Amerijet cargo planes, with over 120, 000 pounds of hurricane relief for the island arrived on Antigua.

The organization setup a base in El Paso, Texas with supplies and cargo planes for evacuation.

Since our founding in 2012, there are now over 30,000 pets who are cherished family pets living in homes after having been flown on either one of Wings of Rescue's squadron of volunteer pilot owned planes or on one of charter cargo planes.

The flights are piloted by volunteers on their own planes, as well as by a fleet of chartered cargo planes.

The United Nations dispatched cargo planes and helicopters, and DRC government officials began holding daily coordinating committee meetings attended by representatives from international aid, and development organizations, WHO, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Foreign aid workers said they had struggled to get equipment and personnel on to Philippine military cargo planes, with the government prioritizing the deployment of soldiers due to widespread looting at the weekend.

Since Abdulmutallab's attempt, efforts to secure airline cabins have been stepped up, but security surrounding cargo planes and cargo compartments in passenger airplanes has received much less attention, particularly outside the U.S..

Last month, the US government secretly flew two cargo planes into Kazakhstan and spirited away — with the cooperation of the republic's government — enough highly enriched uranium to make 20 bombs.

Humans travel with a veritable army of hitch - hikers: marine plants and animals that float in a ship's ballast water; rats, bugs, and other creepers (and slitherers) that stow away in cargo planes.

WASHINGTON — An Air National Guard unit based in Niagara Falls will soon be directing unmanned drones on missions around the globe, and that unit also may get to keep at least some of the four C - 130 cargo planes that the Air Force was threatening to take away less than a year ago.

The Ministry of Defence will not ground the RAF's fleet of Hercules cargo planes, despite US fears over wing cracks.

The number of C - 130 cargo planes at the base would be reduced from 11 to eight.

It remains to be seen what this proposal could mean for the base's fleet of C - 130 cargo planes and its staffing numbers.

The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will receive what could be a life - saving boost in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 budget, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said, as the Air Force will announce plans to bring eight refueling tankers to the base to replace its aging fleet of cargo planes.

The former 30 - cents - an - hour TWA mechanic built his fortune by supplying surplus military equipment to the airline industry and later converting passenger planes to cargo planes.

Then 27, Perry had been around the world flying huge C - 130 cargo planes for the military.

While there were «no identifiable or specific threats,» an FBI official in Chicago said suspicious packages addressed to U.S. destinations found on cargo planes abroad warranted the precautions.

The crash leaves Puerto Rico's National Guard with five large cargo planes, but two of them need maintenance and aren't being used, Rivera said.

UBS researchers admit cargo planes would be more likely than commercial airlines to try pilotless flights.

Boeing is reportedly considering the conversion of used 777 passenger jets into cargo planes in order to capitalize on the boom in e-commerce-related shipments.

This means fuel expenses, pilot salaries and other costs for cargo planes must also be factored into the Air Force One budget.

If Osama bin Laden wants to send me four cargo planes with gauze and alcohol today, I'm taking it.»

An Air National Guard cargo plane crashed Wednesday along a road near a Georgia airport, killing at least five National Guard members from Puerto Rico.»

The GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, sometimes grimly called the «Mother of All Bombs» because of its acronym, was loaded onto a pallet, flown in a C - 130 cargo plane, then dragged out the back of the plane — pallet included — by a parachute.

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C - 130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018.

Washington (AFP)- An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said.

Air national guard C - 130 cargo plane was on a training mission and the cause of the crash wasn't immediately known

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP)-- Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C - 130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew plunged onto a Georgia highway.

A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were killed Wednesday when a military cargo plane crashed near Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport minutes after takeoff, sending black smoke billowing into the sky, authorities said.

In August 2016, the company unveiled its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that were expected to make up its own air transportation network.

A spokesman for the Georgia Air National Guard says authorities don't yet know what caused a military cargo plane to crash after taking off from a Savannah, Georgia, airport, killing at least five.

All nine people on board were killed when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, scattering fiery debris over a highway and railroad tracks, authorities said yesterday.

Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C - 130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew of nine airmen plunged onto a Georgia highway.

Chatham County Deputy Coroner Tiffany Williams says police tell her two people have been killed in the crash of a military cargo plane near an airport in Savannah, Georgia.

The cargo plane was making its final flight into retirement Wednesday morning, Isabelo Rivera, adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard told the AP.

The plane, a C -130-type cargo plane from Puerto Rico's 156th Airlift Wing, had been in Savannah for maintenance and took off about 11:30 a.m., bound for Arizona.

The entire country's current annual import of cocaine would fit into a single C - 5A cargo plane.

We flew to Yerevan, Armenia, on a cargo plane laden with aid, and then by military helicopter to Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno Karabakh.

There also was the tweet that was quickly deleted claiming responsibility for shooting down a cargo plane in the same time frame that the commercial flight was shot down.

A Russian - built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.

Our sources say the luxury cars arrived on a Global African Airlines cargo plane.

The announcement comes soon after the discovery of an explosive package on board a cargo plane bound for Chicago from Yemen, which stopped at East Midlands airport.