Sentences with phrase «flying at a mile»

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

It will travel at 1,451 miles per hour (10 % faster than Concorde), and will fly at around 60,000 feet — higher than any other aircraft has flown, according to The Daily Mail, resulting in a quieter, less turbulent experience.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

These travelers don't just love to fly; they are obsessed with collecting frequent flier miles at the cheapest possible cost.

If it had been fired at a normal angle, analysts say, it could have flown much farther — estimates vary between 2,500 and 4,350 miles, the upper number putting Alaska and possibly Hawaii within striking distance.

Hansen explained that Juno will fly too close to the storm — about 5,600 miles above it — to capture the whole thing in one view at that point.

The missile currently flies to its target at low altitude and subsonic speeds of about 550 miles per hour.

Hansen explained that Juno would fly close to the storm — about 5,600 miles above it — to capture the whole thing in one view at that point.

They fly at 550 mph and have a maximum range between 700 and 1350 nautical miles, depending on which version of the missile is used.

But then again, you're flying at 17,500 miles per hours, it's not like you can just open a hatch and jump out with a parachute and be home.

The missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed in the sea east of Japan, but it crested at a remarkable 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) above the Earth's surface, making it the highest and longest - lasting flight North Korea has completed to date.

The team has yet to decide a final route, but they are looking at areas where many people fly over short distances or drive several hundred miles to their destination.

Lockheed's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 is being designed to zip through the sky at Mach 20 (about 13,000 miles per hour), flying between New York and Los Angeles in 12 minutes.

At present, commercial ventures have gone as far out as geosynchronous orbit, the telecommunication satellites that fly 22,236 miles above the Earth.

If you're close to an award and need extra miles to make a nearby redemption or you want to buy extra miles at a discount, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club has got you covered.

They fly at an average speed of 36 kilometers or 22 miles per hour.

But within minutes we are mesmerized at the sight of gaggles of birds, large and small, elegant and comical, obeying the secret inner prompting that sets them to fly hundreds, even thousands of miles to serve the demands of life and survival.

Last Wednesday I flew 2000 (or so) miles west to California to join a few ladies to cook alongside Bush Beans at the Culinary Institute of America — Greystone.

Commercial seed producers avoid cross-pollination by isolating varieties and planting them at least a mile from each other, which is farther than the average bee flies.

Bobby Isaac set a national stock - car speed record of 216.35 mph for the flying mile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, breaking Mickey Thompson's 1968 mark of 188.17 mph.

When Diane Crump first broke the sex barrier at Hialeah way back on Feb. 7, 1969 she seemed to loose a veritable stampede of eager «jockettes» who, with pigtails flying and accompanied by choruses of wolf whistles, won miles of cutesy headlines like «Go - diva, go!»

Memphis International Airport sits only about seven miles from downtown, but unlike his counterpart at UConn, Justin Fuente flies as little as possible.

This goes against traditional logic which indicates that bettors should avoid fly ball prone pitchers in the mile - high air, but that's part of the contrarian philosophy at Sports Insights.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

«Sometimes he flies under the handlebars and heads straight for oncoming cars at 45 miles an hour!

I live in Spain but will fly over at whatever cost to support a rally for change... how many of you that live a few miles away will get off your arses and do the same?

It was assessed as travelling at a speed of Mach 10 (flying at 10 times the speed of sound or approximately 7,680 miles per hour).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo cancels an appearance at the Belmont Stakes and flies to the prison 25 miles from Canadian border.

Merkel was hundreds of miles away, watching opera «The Flying Dutchman» at a Wagner festival in Bavaria.

The Pentagon's mad scientists at DARPA were hard at work building hypersonic gliders and flying cars in 2010, but the deadly invention 80beats readers loved was the sniper rifle that offered an accurate shot across the distance of 12 football fields, even with winds up to 20 miles per hour.

It has a flying time of up to 27 minutes, at up to 40 miles per hour.

ISS Spotter makes it easy for you to spot the International Space Station (ISS) when it flies by, above our heads, at almost 5 miles a second!

I peeled it off within minutes of arriving here — some 8,900 miles (as the crow flies) from home — and haven't needed anything warmer than a sweatshirt, even at night.

And is it really a less natural way to augment my life than flying 38,000 feet above the planet at 500 miles per hour?

These megabats leave the roost about an hour after sunset and will often fly up to forty miles at night to forage for figs, mangoes, bananas, and other ripe fruit.

MAY 1910 AIR RACES — «Louis Paulhan, the most distinguished aviator of them all, has soared nearly a mile into the air, and finally has surpassed even that feat by flying from London to Manchester, covering a distance of 186 miles, with but one stop for fuel, at an average speed of over forty miles an hour.

But I'll probably hold out on buying a microdrone, because even the Draganflyer is a mere toy compared with what dozens of engineering teams at universities and companies around the world are hard at work on: miniature, autonomous, inexpensive aircraft that you or I could send flying miles to perform any of a wide range of tasks.

Instead he proposes a lightweight aircraft with high thermodynamic efficiency and extreme drag reduction — not so much a flying car as a powered glider that cruises at about 100 miles an hour and gets at least 100 miles per gallon.

From the speed of the pellet, he calculated the fly was going at least 90 miles per hour.

The flying sensors were able to detect all three explosions at that height, and at a lateral distance away from the explosions of about 350 to 400 kilometers, or between 220 and 250 miles away.

A hundred years later Columbia, with its crew of seven, flew 200,000 feet above Texas, meeting the atmosphere at 12,500 miles per hour and on schedule for a touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 16 minutes later.

«Superbly splendid long cars,» Porter wrote, could carry from 60 to 80 passengers in safety, comfort and convenience «while flying at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour.»

For James White, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado, 400 ppm is «a mile marker you pass on the interstate while flying by at 60 mph.»

Second stage capture was completed at 10:06 a.m. EDT as the station flew 260 miles above Brazil.

At the time of capture, the orbital laboratory was flying around 260 statute miles over Egypt, west of the Nile River.

Debris from shattered homes can be the most devastating aspect of a storm, sending a cloud of shrapnel - like pieces of scrap metal and wood flying at hundreds of miles an hour into house after house.

The radar images were taken as the asteroid flew past Earth on October 31 at 1 p.m. EDT at about 1.3 lunar distances (300,000 miles, or 480,000 kilometers) from Earth.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

After the war, he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became NASA, as a test pilot, flying over 200 different aircraft, including the famous X-15, which traveled at 4,000 miles per hour.

In a final test Farman flew from one end of the field to the other, and skirted along the fortifications at this point in a large circle, covering in all more than 2 kilometers (1 1/4 miles) in a flight which lasted for nearly three minutes.