Sentences with phrase «emitted by aircraft»

In each case, the website receives live data emitted by the aircraft and control towers and uses them to plot the location of every commercial aircraft aloft on a Google map.

What is it that you people don't get about this: If large numbers of folks reduced their air travel by ten percent, there would be fewer flights and less CO2 emitted by aircraft.

The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft into the upper atmosphere and the role that they play in modifying the chemical properties of the atmosphere and initiating the formation of condensation trails (contrails) and cirrus clouds.

Not exact matches

This means that the aircraft is able to detect the signals emitted by the enemy's communication and control gear and jam them so that the communication is denied.

And the race to build the first working laser — a ruby crystal that emitted pulses of light at 0.69 microns — was won that same year by Theodore Maiman of Hughes Aircraft Co..

Aircraft can have complex effects on climate through contrail formation and by emitting water vapor into the dry stratosphere.

Fires emit a range of gases and particles into the atmosphere that can be detected by ground - based, aircraft, and satellite instruments.

This, despite the fact that the European Union is threatening to penalize US and other foreign aircraft if they emit CO2 in Europe's airspace, another harbinger of future pressure expected to be placed on the carbon - intensive US by the international community to reduce its per capita greenhouse gas emissions.

California - based Virgin America (which is an entirely separate company than Virgin Atlantic, by the way...) has announced that it has become the first US airline to join The Climate Registry, committing to report all of its greenhouse gas emissions: Young Fleet Helps Lower Emissions Founded in 2007, Virgin Atlantic touts its fuel saving measures: It operates a very young fleet of aircraft (Airbus A320s) which on a fleet - wide basis means that Virgin America emits about 25 % fewer emissions than other domestic carriers on the routes it flies.

Indeed, «even though 90 % of aircraft fuel is burned at cruise altitudes, only the pollutants that are emitted during takeoff and landing are regulated by measuring emissions during tests.»

OSLO (Reuters)- Aircraft condensation trails criss - crossing the sky may be warming the planet on a normal day more than the carbon dioxide emitted by all planes since the Wright Brothers» first flight in 1903, a study said on Tuesday.