Sentences with phrase «in flight operations»

Develop and compile flight manuals that assist in improving, evaluating and developing specifications in flight operations, airfield operations, air traffic control, radio communications, electronics and avionics

This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation.

Not exact matches

The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

In areas already pummeled by the powerful storm, flight operations had been rolled back and halted altogether.

American Airlines, which has one of the larger operations in south Florida, said on Thursday it had added 16 flights out of Miami, amid more than 2,400 forced cancellations through Monday.

United Continental Holdings Inc. suspended its entire regional operation and all mainland flights out of Houston to non-hub airports around the country as Hurricane Harvey lashed southeast Texas, the airline said in a statement Saturday.

Robert Mann, an aviation consultant and former American Airlines executive, said it would most likely be Tuesday before Delta's operations in Atlanta returned to normal, and for passengers «it could be most of the week» because there aren't many open seats on other flights in the last week before Christmas.

THE Corporate Traveller, a division of Flight Centre Limited, has considerably expanded its WA operations over the past three years in response to growing demand for business travel services in both metropolitan and country areas.

These hurricanes disrupted normal airline flight operations, with the largest number of cancellations occurring the day after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, with 4,567 cancellations.

This takes Blue Origin one step closer to beginning its commercial flight operations in the near future.

U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D - West Palm Beach, introduced a measure Tuesday that would create a $ 7 million fund to help aviation operations in New Jersey and Florida hurt by presidential flight restrictions

I've endured hostile flight attendants in premium cabins on 14 hour flights, overheard United Club supervisors making homophobic comments to other employees, followed news coverage of passengers being physically removed from planes and watched as Kirby has wrecked an otherwise improving operation.

To achieve this, Southwest Airlines gathered workers from its in - flight, ground, maintenance, and dispatch operations for a cross-discipline brainstorm.

«We audit our own facilities — our plant, offshore platform operations and in - flight kitchens — and we adhere to strict standards,» Huggins says.

Jurgen Klopp has refused to rush the full - back back into action too quick — Flanagan underwent two serious knee operations — and whilst he was involved in cup action recently, the defender had to bide his time to play in the top - flight.

The partner, the EOI notes, ought to have good financial strength; technical strength in areas of IT systems and flight operations; maintenance yield and capacity management; good distribution network; and be a member of a global alliance.

The Ayuba Wabba - led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday failed to carry out its plan of grounding flight operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos over the recent increase in fuel price.

Instructively, Nigerian air force surveillance aircraft including the Augusta and ATR aircraft have in the last months, been carrying out surveillance flights around and over the Sambisa forest, collecting intelligence and passing same to ground troops in the overall joint operation to clear the North East of Boko Haram terrorists».

The convention will feature a number of workshops on developing beyond visual line of site operations in the state, as well as flight demonstration in Syracuse and the Griffiss International Airport.

My concern is that if the turbines are placed in the base's flight path, they could be seen as impediments to future operations and could tilt the scales towards closure in the next round of reviews.

Monika Krautstrunk and Andreas Giez are in charge of flight operations at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) flight facility in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.

SenseFly's swinglet cam already allows that sort of pilot - and signal - free operation, which is part of the reason why it can cover more than 10 miles in a single flight.

General Electric put up $ 600,000 in prizes to learn about solving problems with flight efficiency and hospital operations.

Reed's team also consulted on other satellite repair operations, including a Challenger flight in 1984 that fixed the ailing Solar Max satellite.

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

Another major factor in this study was the scope of Operation IceBridge's measurements across Greenland, which included flights that covered distances of tens of thousands of kilometers across the ice sheet.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

Engineers and technicians at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are primarily responsible for the management and operation of the Space Network and the Near Earth Network.

In at least eight instances last year, malfunctions at several major airports brought operations to a standstill, triggering a cascade of delays and flight cancellations across the country.

Webb's instruments have already undergone three «cryo - vacuum» tests at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to simulate operations in the cold vacuum of space.

Starting next week, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, will be carrying science flights over sea ice in the Arctic, to help validate satellite readings and provide insight into the impact of the summer melt season on land and sea ice.

Once Dragon was in place, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio monitored the Common Berthing Mechanism operations for first and second stage capture of the cargo ship, assuring that the vehicle was securely attached to the station with a hard mate.

Because of the difficulty of monitoring engines in operation, most manufacturers test blades either after flight or rely on simulated tests to give them the data on how the various coatings on the blades are performing.

Andreas Giez also moved from IPA to the flight operation in 1999 to become head of the flight facilities» sensor and data group.

«Certainly the data from our biofuel test flight will be a critical component towards helping biofuel become a certified aviation fuel,» Air New Zealand's general manager of airline operations and chief pilot, Capt. David Morgan, said in a statement.

NASA's Operation IceBridge — the airborne mission flown annually over both polar regions — is now in its tenth year making flights over the Arctic.

Offer our experience and expertise in hardware, software, operations, and science to the writing and review of the proposals for your space flight camera systems.

«The team has done a fantastic job of adapting to spacecraft operations in the Martian environment,» said Richard Burns, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«In this first practical exercise of the mission's science operations, the mission team learned so much about this spacecraft's capabilities and flight operations that we are now ahead of the game for when we get to Bennu.»

Science operations for the SOHO spacecraft are being conducted by a NASA - ESA team from the Experiment Operations Facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The team's arrival was delayed by a week due to bad weather hampering flight operations in and out of Russia's Novo airbase.

This, frequent flight opportunities, and operation that enables rapid changes of science instruments and hands - on in - flight access to the instruments, assure a unique and extensive potential - both for training young instrumentalists and for encouraging and deploying nascent technologies.

«The unique talents of Southern Research's engineers were integral, and, in some cases, enabling for the design, operation and recovery from the flight anomalies and accidents that occurred during the Shuttle program,» Johns said.

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.

A launch vehicle program costs almost as much to maintain as a force in being without doing anything as it does to conduct active flight operations.

To provide the data handling subsystem with an exceptional flexibility of operation, the OBC and Central Terminal Unit were in - flight reprogrammable.

We also get to know the Air France flight engineer, played by Denis Ménochet, whose fearless questioning eventually leads Brühl to open up — and, it's suggested, may have played a role in how the rescue operation eventually played out.

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