Sentences with phrase «flying a model plane»

Jim's life is upside down: his father is out of work and spends his days on the couch watching TV or flying model planes; his mother is the hard - working breadwinner; his sister Becky has stopped washing her armpits and has a biker boyfriend Jim calls Craterface; and Jim is worried he will be expelled from school due to his less - than - stellar academic performance.

Not exact matches

«Our fighter planes took normal tactical measures, identifying the models of the Chinese planes and flying aerial surveillance until they left,» the South Korean military said, as quoted by Reuters.

Discount carriers like Southwest and JetBlue were reshaping the industry with cheap fares and an easy - to - understand business model: fly one type of plane, sell only economy - class seats and treat passengers like human beings.

Google generates the 3D models that populate Google Earth by using a fleet of camera - equipped planes that fly over cities snapping photos.

Prata says sensors like those he is developing at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) in Kjeller could keep planes flying by letting them finesse the educated guesses of models to reveal ash - free patches and routes.

Flight Simulator, for whatever reason, is anchored around a model of Chicago, and one of our exercises to demonstrate our accuracy was to fly our planes into Sears Tower (now Willis Tower).

But let's take an analogy would you rather fly in a plane that the engineers took their time to think about and plan and do every step right or would you rather fly in a plane that was rushed to market just to be first so they could come out with a newer model 1 year later when its done right?

Suggested book bag goodies might be a chart, sunglasses, flying gloves, pilot's watch, model aeroplane, tie with planes on etc..

Collaboration with Dan Mitchell, mobile with plastic flies and model EasyJet planes, dimensions variable

Every person that has ever flown in a jet plane knows that air pressure and air temperature decreases with altitude, yet they can't grasp the elegant simplicity of this observational model in explaining the temperature profile from the tropopause to the near surface.

Lukewarmers wouldn't cross a bridge, fly in a plane or live next to a nuclear power plant that were built using models that don't work.

The models used to develop it (skilled enough that Boeing built the simulator to train the test pilots long before the plane was built, and skilled enough that when the plane was finally flown, the pilots found virtually no difference between the real plane and the pre-built simulator) are easily as opaque as climate models.