Sentences with phrase «from the aircraft flying»

At this time, pilots from aircraft flying in the same area reported in, with one SkyWest Airlines pilot saying, «and he's just hit the water».

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Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the continued demand for our product, the wind - down of ExpressJet's flying agreement with Delta, and the related removal from service and / or placement into service of certain aircraft, the scheduled aircraft deliveries for SkyWest Airlines for 2018, as well as SkyWest's future financial and operating results, plans, objectives, expectations, estimates, intentions and outlook, and other statements that are not historical facts.

The effort is intended to educate drone owners and prevent smaller aircraft from flying too close to planes and jets — a move that has angered some drone hobbyists.

Regardless, the FAA allows drones for personal use, as long as operators follow the rules set by hobby groups, such as flying below 400 feet, always within the operator's line of sight and away from manned aircraft and stadiums.

Though it is not allowed to fly at night during its test stage, the aircraft managed to take off from Cardington Airfield before sunset at 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday.

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.

I've heard from other colleagues that their flights were also enjoyable and read from other users that they had minimal jet lag after flying on a similar aircraft.

«Recently, one of these aircraft flew from Travis Air Force Base, California, to Yokota, Japan,» Everhart said of the C - 5M.

Travelers are trying to figure out how to deal with new government rules placing an indefinite ban on electronic devices larger than smartphones from the cabins of commercial aircraft flying to both the United States and the United Kingdom from certain countries.

Last November, aircraft from Reagan again intercepted Russian bombers flying near it.

If you've flown on some of the new or newly retrofitted aircraft from Alaska, Delta, United and other airlines, you might find in - seat power and personal seatback video screens.

That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.

Interestingly, one of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi airspace.

At these altitudes, the aircraft will be far above the airspace where commercial airliners fly and free from storms or other weather disturbances, Parikh explained.

Under the draft of the regulations, drone operators must remain within a visual line of site from their drones and are not allowed to fly drones over people who aren't in control of the aircraft.

Since drones don't take off and land from designated locations, the way airplanes do, drone pilots need to be able to track aircraft to avoid collisions and flying over restricted airspace.

Cimeron Morrissey, who test flew the aircraft, wrote in a review that the final version would look quite different from the prototype, which doesn't look all that practical.

Made up at Netheravon on Feb. 14, 1915 the unit contributed in developing daylight bombing tactics (their motto «Lead the Field» reflects this expertise) and the fin of their jet was painted with the emblem of the fox, received from Fairey Fox aircraft that the squadron flew in 1926.

The U.K.'s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has a code of practice for drone owners that tells them to keep their autonomous flying vehicles away from aircraft and airports.

Huge cargo aircraft can now fly virtually an entire factory halfway across the globe, while decisions as to how fast that new factory assembly line must operate, what its workers should be paid and what profit is to be made are based on data from the corporation's global computers back in Connecticut or New York.

It took today's tragedy, more than five years after planes destroyed the World Trade Center, to prompt the governor to request that the FAA keep private aircraft from flying uncharted over the city.

Federal aviation officials, battered by complaints that bureaucratic hurdles are preventing industry from realizing the economic benefits of drones, announced they are streamlining rules to expedite permits to fly small, commercial unmanned aircraft.

NFF President Amaju Pinnick disclosed this to the team on board the ARIK Air Bombadier CRJ 1000 aircraft that flew the Nigerian delegation back from Yaounde on Tuesday morning.

These new rules are going to allow «proof of concept» prototype aircraft up to 2000 kg all up mass to be test flown without the need for approval from the CAA.

Clinton, who has abstained from the common campaign practice of flying on the same aircraft as her traveling press corps, has landed a new ride — a large jet dubbed Hill Force One — and welcomed reporters on board.

The following month government agencies issued terse warnings for civilians to keep their drones far away from low - flying aircraft being used to locate and evacuate Hurricane Harvey victims in Houston.

Incorporating cheap GPS chips and autopilot software cribbed from real aircraft, microdrones are moving toward autonomous flight, allowing you to simply pick a path from a map loaded on your computer or smartphone and then turn the drone loose to fly it.

A recent analysis from researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that this aircraft could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel produced on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.

A reconnaissance drone has flown for two days straight, fuelled by a laser beam that transmits energy from the ground to the aircraft.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

For this short, end - of - summer campaign, the IceBridge scientists are flying aboard an HU - 25A Guardian aircraft from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Data collected from a passenger aircraft that flew over Southeast Asia between December 2012 and January 2014 showed that the substances weren't only present at ground level.

The L - 1011 took off from Vandenberg at 6:30 p.m. PDT and flew to the drop point over the Pacific Ocean, where the aircraft released the Pegasus XL from beneath its belly.

I was able to «fly» over the terrain the lost aircraft had supposedly flown over — seeing it from the novel vantage point of a pilot.

You can do these studies from space, but this is 1,000 times cheaper, and 10 times cheaper than using a big aircraft like those NASA typically has flown around.

Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California have developed and flown an aircraft that needs no fuel: It is powered entirely by laser light beamed from the ground.

She flew attack aircraft from 1975, and was the first woman to command a naval aviation squadron

Flares loaded with cloud - seeding material fire from an aircraft's wings as it flies through a cloud.

But future aircraft designs routinely flying during the 2030's may look very different from today's airliners in order to deliver on the promises of reduced fuel burn, noise and emissions.

If a professor at the University of Florida (U.F.) has his way, the first flying saucer to grace Planet Earth's skies isn't likely to come from outer space but rather from Gainesville, where the faculty member is drawing up plans to build a circular aircraft that can hover in the air like a helicopter without any moving parts or fuel.

Imposing a ban on flying in the stratosphere would increase the total output of NOx and other pollutants from aircraft by about 7 per cent, according to Lufthansa.

Peper found that, during one day when all transatlantic flights were plotted in detail, almost all aircraft flying to America from Europe flew in the stratosphere.

The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).

Though carbon fiber parts and efficient engines are already flying on some aircraft on the market, engineers needed a new aircraft to completely capture the efficiency from these upgrades.

UAVSAR, which flies on a NASA C - 20A aircraft from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, measures ground deformation over large areas to a precision of 0.04 to 0.2 inches (0.1 to 0.5 centimeters).

These incidents appear unrelated, yet they share a tragic similarity: the pilot of each plane believed his flight control systems would automatically prevent the aircraft from stalling or flying too slowly to stay airborne.

Yet, even if the Deutsche Flugsicherung does not agree with these suggestions, aircraft taking off from Berlin Brandenburg airport «Willy Brandt» that would fly over Wannsee close to BER II would have already reached an altitude of around 1.5 to 2 kilometres.

One example offered in their paper is typical: On Oct 3, 2015, an NSF / NCAR research aircraft took off from southern Chile and flew south to measure the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelf.

In another study, PNNL researchers figured out how to calculate certain cloud properties by combining data collected from instruments on the ground rather than relying upon research aircraft that collect data as they fly.

We flew to Rothera from Punta Arenas airport in a Dash - 7 aircraft, and were quickly inducted.