Sentences with phrase «flies jumbo jets»

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

In fact, as this great video shows at the end, flying is cheaper than ever, half of what it cost thirty years ago, when they were already flying jumbo jets.

Not exact matches

A person who needs to get from home to work doesn't care if he gets there in a BMW or a Volvo any more than you care whether Boeing or Airbus makes the jumbo jet you fly in.

When we leased our first 747 jumbo jet in 1984, I knew very little about the airline business, beyond the fact that I had flown a lot as a record executive and disliked it.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

Pence, who flew to the military facility with his wife, second lady Karen Pence, aboard a C - 17 military jumbo jet, praised the troops» service in helping combat Islamic State fighters in nearby Syria.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name

The 150,000 - pound shuttle Enterprise never made it into orbit, but it did fly in tests on top of a 747 jumbo jet.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand at John F. Kennedy International Airport when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday morning.

A propulsion engineer, Kyle should be exited that they will be flying on the new E-474 plane — a huge jumbo - jet which Kyle had helped design — but she is crippled by her grief.

Flying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in FlFlying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Flflying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Florida.

The sound of rain falling all around you, an arrow or bullet whizzing by your head, or the panning effect of a jumbo jet flying over, these are the kind of head - spinning, duck - for - cover audio experiences that create a more convincing audio experience.

I have flown on jumbo jets, smaller jets and propeller airplanes.