Sentences with phrase «flight testing by»

The latter layout, a two - class 615 - seat superjumbo, is now undergoing final flight testing by Airbus with planned service entry in December.

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But by mid-2015, delays caused by failures with Falcon 9 test flights caused the first launch to be pushed to late 2016.

That is a higher altitude and longer flight time than any other missile the country has test - launched, according to several South Korean analysts reached by the Associated Press.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

Russia has so far carried out four tests of the Yu - 71, with the most recent test flight conducted on Feb. 26, Russia's Sputnik News reported, citing a recent report by Jane's Intelligence Review.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

A nearby testing bay, which is also used to qualify Merlin engines before flight, was also damaged from the explosion — perhaps by flying metal, concrete, or liquid - oxygen - fueled flames.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was coming up, which would serve as the perfect trial by fire — the long flight across the Atlantic would let me test the tablet's entertainment functionality while the conference itself, from which I'd have to file stories, would serve as a good work scenario.

He said the BFR will be ready by next year for «test flights,» and he's targeting to put 1 million people on Mars.

The launch will involve the Falcon Heavy rocket system, which will be the world's most powerful rocket by the time of its first flight test this summer.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

The Veggie system was developed by Madison, Wis. - based Orbital Technologies Corp. and tested at the Kennedy Space Centre before flight.

For this first flight, astronauts will just test that the technology works in microgravity by analysing the genomes of bacteria, viruses and mice.

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

The Berlin Air Show witnessed a silent, clean test flight by Airbus's E-Fan two - seater aircraft, which is entirely propelled by electricity

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

Solar Impulse 2 test flights are due to take place in May 2014, followed by training flights over Switzerland.

In 2009, prototypes of the suit were tested by three volunteers on a plane that creates brief periods of weightlessness by following a roller - coaster - like flight path (see photo).

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon flight - test a plasma antenna (encased in a tough, nonconducting polymer) that is designed to be immune from detection by radar even as it transmits and receives low - frequency radio waves.

This mission was the fourth cargo flight to the station by a Dragon spacecraft, counting the first test flight in May 2012.

Weeze Airport in Germany, just across the Dutch border near Nijmegen, will serve as the test site for this life - like robotic falcon developed by Clear Flight Solutions, a spin - off company of the University of Twente.

When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is fuelled not just by hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights.

Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tests.

The maiden voyage of the 11 - ounce laser plane lasted just 15 minutes; moreover, its test flight was conducted indoors to avoid problems created by wind or bad weather.

Lewis is particularly enthusiastic about the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic flight - test vehicle funded by the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's research and development arm.

Instead, batches for such test flights or military contracts are processed over months individually by UOP at a Houston facility.

By the summer of 2009, when Boeing expects its first new 787 Dreamliner to be delivered to Japan, engineers will be banking on a number of engine safety tests to assure a future filled with uneventful flights.

In one landmark 1971 test Joseph Hafele of Washington University in Saint Louis and Richard Keating of the U.S. Naval Observatory flew cesium atomic clocks around the world on commercial jet flights, then compared the clocks with reference clocks on the ground to find that they had diverged, as predicted by relativity.

The researchers released each bat in a flight cage and doled out flowers one by one to the bats, working until 3 or 4 a.m. First, they'd place a male flower in a test tube vase on a table.

Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

Next month, a coalition headed by Boeing will release a full report on all the test flights.

Upon the return of the newspaper correspondents and photographers from North Carolina, considerable more information was obtainable regarding the recent flights made by the Wright brothers in testing their aeroplane than has hitherto been available Unfortunately, not one of these men is a qualified technical observer, for which reason we are little better off for details than we were before.

A three minute, 15 - second test the day before was the world's first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil.

In that Space News interview, Ferguson said that the Starliner testing schedule includes a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018, this would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight, which is currently slated to take place in the third quarter of 2018.

Design certification signifies that the system can «safely approach, dock, mate, and depart from ISS» followed by certification that determines whether the company has completed the flight tests and other activities and meets CCP requirements.

Last week, the CCP released the most recent schedule showing SpaceX's test flights have slipped a few months, but both companies still are expected to complete their uncrewed and crewed test flights by the end of 2018.

Following the flight test program and certification by NASA, the company has been contracted for six crewed flights to the International Space Station.

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

NASA plans to carry out the first uncrewed Orion test flight in 2018, followed by a crewed test - flight in 2021.

But by testing dragonflies with both real prey and fake targets (the flight patterns of which could be controlled by the research team) and tracking their movements, Leonardo and his colleagues found the bugs to be much more coordinated than we've ever given them credit for.

When a specific need is identified, «we immediately go to the lab,» he says, recalling a flight to Paris, where he hand - carried 15 test shades requested by the St. Denis store, which counts a large Ivory Coast community among its clientele.

Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner play aged Air Force vets who pioneered test flights for the space program but saw their dreams co-opted by NASA.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

Unlike many of the personal testing devices that you can find on the internet, in flight magazines or novelty promotions, these instruments have been tested by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and have proven to meet their requirements for evidential breath testers.

Autonomous, electric eVTOL aircraft from A ³ by Airbus successfully completes first full - scale test flight: Vahana

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