"Heavy turbulence" refers to a very turbulent or bumpy flying experience. It means that the airplane may shake and move around a lot during the flight, making it uncomfortable and potentially causing objects to move.
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The offering was well received, with retail investors oversubscribing more than four times over, despite
heavy turbulence on global markets as the Dow recorded its two largest point - drops on record.
With the anniversary of the Munich air disaster approaching this weekend the former England international regaled a story on talkSPORT on Thursday afternoon involving him and Michael Owen travelling on a plane
through heavy turbulence.
After a summer of
heavy turbulence in global financial markets, the new season starts with the seemingly endless story of when the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates.
In a final round of tests, the team had hung an elaborate wooden framework and up to 6 tons of lead weights off the spine of the wing — known as the wing spar — to simulate the stress of the forces the plane could experience
during heavy turbulence.
Alain Bellemare is running a company with a great history, and possibly a great future, but only if he manages to get the CSeries off the ground and through
the heavy turbulence ahead.
The results were well predicted and did not come as a surprise (unlike the other elections result last year that did, in fact, resulted in
some heavy turbulence on the trading market).