Sentences with phrase «commercial airliner»

I have logged over 3,000 hours of travel on commercial airliners holding 400 passengers.

The balloon, made of plastic as thin as a dry - cleaning bag, rises to a float height of about 120,000 feet, which is three or four times higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners.

The balloons, once in the stratosphere, will be twice as high as commercial airliners and barely visible to the naked eye.

China Post: Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilizes air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.

At these altitudes, the aircraft will be far above the airspace where commercial airliners fly and free from storms or other weather disturbances, Parikh explained.

My conspiracy theory is that the Illuminati are using chemtrails sprayed from commercial airliners owned by the Koch brothers to control the minds of Republicans and make them think climate science is a conspiracy.

Catching commercial airliners in giant nets never took off.

Her death was the first in an accident aboard a US commercial airliner since 2009.

You may also recall that the 9/11 terrorists used commercial airliners as deadly missiles.

Although stringent civilian and military security countermeasures have been implemented to stop determined assaults, the deliberate crash of a large commercial airliner looms in the imagination.

It's undeniably more comfortable than a ride on the average commercial airliner, but operating Trump's plane comes with a hefty price tag.

The incident claimed the life of passenger Jennifer Riordan, the first fatality on board a US commercial airliner since 2009.

drones, these «aircraft» remain isolated from the airspace where commercial airliners and other aircraft operate — confined to low - altitudes away from airports, required to remain within visual line of sight of the remote pilot, and otherwise relegated to a subordinate status in the NAS.

As a modern commercial airliner it is designed to withstand the impact and continue flying, but with an engine warning light flashing up - such strikes can cause serious damage - the captain decides to make an emergency landing.

Covers you if you die, lose certain body parts, or lose use of those body parts while riding as a passenger on a scheduled commercial airliner during a covered trip.

Covers you if you die, lose certain body parts, or lose use of those body parts while riding as a passenger on a scheduled commercial airliner during a covered trip.

If you can get to a very high reliability with even a single engine, and then you can land with either of two engines, I think we can get to a landing reliability that is on par with the safest commercial airliners.

Many Americans were shocked by the cost of the president's plane as it is much more than a standard commercial airliner.

After rising 10 % in 2015, Boeing's commercial airliner revenue fell 2.2 % during the first nine months of 2016 to $ 49 billion.

Paul Uys has spent more time aboard commercial airliners since Loblaw made its commitment in May 2009.

Americans are searched electronically before boarding commercial airliners.

A leap second may have caused the Russian satellite navigation system to crash for hours, and critics claim the added instants could cause commercial airliners to crash as well.

As time moves on, new commercial airliners come in all sizes but the biggest are joined by even bigger models.

For example, the Bioenergy Technologies Office has helped a company develop a process for making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runoff.

The front seats are slim, with plastic trim, leather or cloth wraps, and foamy cushions that resemble slightly stylish commercial airliner seats.

The 777 - 300ER is the world's largest long - range twin - engine commercial airliner.

The Airbus A350 XWB is the latest commercial airliner from Airbus Industries.

Based outside of Portland, Oregon, Bruce Campbell is an engineer who converted this retired Boeing 727 commercial airliner into a fully functioning home with electricity and running water, on a wooded suburban lot he bought during his younger days.

If commercial airliners were crashing in thunderstorms every year or two, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, would they be front - page news?

This output from one solar fuels refinery could fly a large 300 - body commercial airliner for about seven hours.

Examples of domestic commercial airliners used are: the Boeing 747 and the newer 787 models.

The Seattle Times obtained a memo from Mike VanderWel, of the company's commercial airliner division, describing the malware as «metastasizing rapidly.»

Most commercial airliners already spend most of their time being controlled by an autopilot.

He lives on commercial airliners and at home in Denver.

In the four years since Pan Am flight 103 was destroyed over Lockerbie, killing 270, five more bombs have exploded in the holds of commercial airliners.

Some of the largest commercial airliners can weigh over 1 million pounds.

To massage that number up, Ram's engineers have made use of more aerodynamic tricks than an average commercial airliner.

Jet aircraft developed with military R&D; expenditures led to modern commercial airliners.

Teams from local hospitals and other organizations will attempt to pull a 737 commercial airliner in the fastest time

Airlines are warring over wealthy travelers, spending millions on plush first - class cabins that look more like flying hotel rooms than seats on a commercial airliner.

While liftoff speed is around 170 mph at sea level, a commercial airliner's cruising speed is around 550 mph at 40,000 feet — where the air density is 10x thinner.

So a radical overhaul of the commercial airliner may one day happen, but it's so many decades into the future that it can't be predicted with any seriousness by manufacturers.

The aerospace giant these days is actively marketing its next generation of commercial airliner, the CSeries, as well as boosting sales of its private jet lines.

People like him — and there are more than you think — charter a commercial airliner and hop across the country visiting the Meccas of the aviation world.

As the atmosphere draws closer to near - vacuum, it should theoretically allow the pod to quickly move at speeds close to that of a commercial airliner.

Now you may these two and (hopefully) you may arrive to a conclusion that Iranian nuclear bombs can be delivered to the US using some alternative to an ICBM (for example, a commercial airliner).

Indonesia's national search and rescue agency is still trying to determine what happened to a commercial airliner carrying 162 people that vanished over the weekend.

MacPherson and Hershberger are at opposite ends of a widening spectrum of sports - minded private - plane owners who go places shunned by the commercial airliners and do so on schedules of their own making.