Sentences with phrase «cruising altitude»

The crew handed out the headsets once we were at cruising altitude, which I thought as a bit odd and should have been done on the ground.

Once the aircraft reaches cruising altitude, people can again use some electronic devices.

The service was completed quickly after hitting cruising altitude and the cabin lights were turned off shortly thereafter.

The service is available once the aircraft reaches 10,000 feet cruising altitude.

I imagine the changes are the result of watching sales never attain cruising altitude.

What percentage happen once the plane reaches cruising altitude?

The service is available once the aircraft reaches 10,000 feet cruising altitude (NOTE: service might not be available on select routes).

The high cruising altitude of jets and planes may increase motion sickness, vomiting, or even jettison a woman into early delivery.

For those that aren't up to cruising altitude on this one: From January 1 the EU emission trading scheme includes airlines landing in Europe, requiring airlines to pay for permits for the greenhouse gas emissions created by their flights.

This was a dynamic, ridiculous, consistent offense that had a high cruising altitude and a stratospheric peak.

They found that at typical cruise altitudes in the northern half of the North Atlantic corridor in winter, most of their diagnostics showed between 10 % and 40 % increase in median strength of turbulence, and a 40 % to 170 % increase in the frequency of episodes of moderate or greater turbulence.

Cruising altitudes between 35,000 - 40,000 feet are the sweet spot where pilots can fly as fast as possible while burning the least amount of fuel.

Their website states that car seats must be turned forward facing during cruising altitude so as not to interfere with the recline of the seat in front.

Concorde had a cruise speed of Mach 2.02 (around 2,170 km / h or 1,350 mph) and a maximum cruise altitude of 60,000 feet (18 300 metres) with a delta wing configuration and a reheat - equipped evolution of the engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber.

This is consistent with the plane breaking up high in the air — wreckage was similarly spread over a large area when a PanAm jet was blown up at cruise altitude by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, UK in 1988.

So now, you no longer have to wait for the aircraft to reach cruising altitude before you're allowed to continue reading that page - turner on your e-reader.

Aircraft operations can be optimized for energy use (with minimum CO2 emissions) by minimizing taxiing time, flying at optimal cruise altitudes, flying minimum - distance great - circle routes, and minimizing holding and stacking around airports.

Kristopher Karnauskas, an associate scientist in geology and geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed flight times and daily wind speeds at cruising altitudes for four airlines on three routes over the last 20 years.

Contrails are produced by hot aircraft engine exhaust mixing with the cold air that is typical at cruise altitudes several miles above Earth's surface, and are composed primarily of water in the form of ice crystals... Researchers are most interested in persistent contrails because they create long - lasting, and sometimes extensive, clouds that would not normally form in the atmosphere, and are believed to be a factor in influencing Earth's environment.

These are the particles that reached aircraft cruising altitudes, above 9 kilometres, in European skies during the eruption.

At the planes» cruising altitude of 50,000 feet, the sky is 20 - 30 times darker than as seen from the ground, and there is much less atmospheric turbulence, allowing fine structures and motions in the Sun's corona to be visible.

After sneaking a few more vodkas when the plane reaches cruising altitude, he decides to leave things in the hands of his co-pilot (Brian Geraghty) while he takes a nap.

And That's Just Cruise Emissions Researchers from MIT and the University of Cambridge in the UK have released a study that attributes about 8,000 premature deaths to emissions from airplanes at cruise altitudes.

On top of things like people chatting and rattling service carts, engine noise levels inside the cabin can be as loud as 85 dB at cruising altitude — that's nearing levels that can be dangerous with extended exposure.

Even at this cruising altitude, we remain on the lookout for potential air pockets.

Yet CEO Dennis Muilenburg still has more to do to reach cruising altitude.

You know those excruciating 10 minutes before the airplane reaches its cruising altitude that you have to stow your iPhone?

, followed by blessed silence as soon as we reach cruising altitude and my seatmate and I indulge in our respective books or music or sleep, followed by friendly chatter during the final descent («you going to make your connection?»

After some early ups and downs of his own, he found one hell of a cruising altitude.

I built Have Baby Will Travel because traveling with a baby is stressful, and meeting a young child's needs while you're at cruising altitude can often be a challenge.

The timing helps prevent his ears from hurting and hopefully has him full and asleep by the time we're at our cruising altitude.

Skip the mile - dry club and make delicious cocktails as you reach cruising altitude!

He levels it off at a cruising altitude of 1,500 feet.

Now, researchers have figured out how flies nail a relatively simple flying feat: setting their cruising altitude.

The team's observations, published online today in Current Biology, suggest that flies base their cruising altitude on horizontal edges and landmarks — such as table surfaces or tree tops — and not on how fast the ground is moving beneath them.

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.

This will have wide - reaching benefits in the aerospace industry, from enhancing de-icing solutions to minimising the formation of fuel vapours at cruising altitudes.»

Or, as actor Jason Clarke says in his role as the climbing guide Rob Hall in the recently released movie, Everest, «Human beings simply aren't built to function at the cruising altitude of a 747.»

The pilot is reported to have then radioed again to say the problem had been fixed before taking the plane to its cruising altitude.

Coincidentally, the plan is to to release the lander onto comet C - G from a cruising altitude similar to an airplane on Earth.

At 11,000 meters, its depth is approximately the same as the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner.

Keep a travel - sized bottle of Vichy's Mineralizing Thermal Water in your carry - on for an extra boost of hydration at cruising altitude.

We're at a cruising altitude of 41,000 feet, and we're just going to be making penis shapes in the air today

The mountain - climbing drama takes an impressive ensemble cast that includes Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal and hikes them up Mount Everest, which sits at the cruising altitude of a 747 according to the trailer.

The next three pieces — «Cruising Altitude» (8 mins.)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation releases to home video (Blu - ray / DVD / Digital Copy or Blu - ray / DVD / Digital Copy Steelbook Packaging) with the following bonus features: - Audio Commentary by Tom Cruise and director / screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie - Lighting the Fuse - Cruise Control - Heroes - Cruising Altitude - Mission: Immersible - Sand Theft Auto - The Missions Continue

Cruising Altitude: (8:23) An in - depth look at the movie's most famous stunt, which Cruise insisted on performing 8 -LRB-!)

Almost all of the discussion focuses on the health effects of reaching the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner, and they are all, predictably, horrifying.

He's experienced identity fraud, dealt with the Irish mafia and beaten up terrorists at cruising altitude.

First calculated by Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, the summit of Everest, at 29,035 ft, is only just lower than the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet — between 30,000 ft and 36,000 ft.