Sentences with phrase «jet age»

Unfortunately, we just don't often make time for the journey in our modern jet age.

The crisp lines and jet age tailfins give this Thunderbird presence seldom recaptured in modern cars and make it worthy of a spot on this list.

Built in the early 1960s as part of an overall $ 50 million «Los Angeles Jet Age Terminal Construction Project,» the LAX Theme Building was a vision and symbol of an optimistic future with its skeletal, flying - saucer - like appearance...

The post-war Jet Age introduced a new devil - may - care casualness and love of frontier.

The project also includes plans to open a museum that will focus on the history of TWA, the Jet Age, and the Mid-century Modern design movement.

electric scooters are part of «the biggest revolution in transportation since the dawn of the Jet Age.»

VanderZanden has implied electric scooters are part of «the biggest revolution in transportation since the dawn of the Jet Age.»

The jet age has accelerated this growth, producing what might become an international «sobriety explosion.»

«But imagine this industry, imagine this sector, imagine this space when we get to the twin engine, and the jet age in 10, 20, 30 years from now.

For me, it's really a question of priorities — one of the speakers on that NPR show earlier today mentioned, for example, that current F - 22 pilots are getting about 1/3 of the flight training hours that American pilots have normally gotten per month since the start of the jet age.

«The reign of Queen Elizabeth has been one of unparalleled change, from rationing through to the jet age, to the space age, to the digital age.

Now, in the nuclear and jet age, distance and climate no longer provided a natural limit to foreign depredations.

This saves time in this jet age, as well as saves wastage of emotions too.

JET WARFARE > Craig Breedlove vs. The Arfon Brothers Land speed record racing entered the jet age with several bangs, although not a sonic boom, with the ground - shaking battle between Craig Breedlove and the Arfon brothers, Walt and Art, at the Bonneville Salt Flats during the 1960s.

As you know, our country is on the verge of the most significant new development in aviation since the beginning of the jet age — the emergence of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones.

Speedback Silverstone Edition encapsulates this period of time, subtly recreates the mood of the Jet Age and propels it into the modern day.

The Jet Age.

Centurion Lounge blows away the aesthetic of a standard airport lounge with a design scheme firmly rooted in the highest peak of the Jet Age.

By the 1990s, the IAB had moved so far from its original elegant vision after having been modified beyond recognition over the years (in order to meet the demands of the jet age and, later on, the introduction of jumbo jets) that it was soon considered an eyesore.

Cacy claimed that the aircraft's introduction in Q1 2011 would be as exciting as the advent of the jet age in the 1950s.

Thursday 3rd September, 6.30 — 8.30 pm 4 September to 1 November 2009 Wednesday to Sunday 11 am — 6 pm This autumn, Raven Row will combine two exhibitions: commissioned work by Dave Hullfish Bailey and Nils Norman, and «Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium», which is curated by David Brittain and Four Corners Books.

------------------------------------------------------ And yet, the idea I got from the days after 9/11/2001 was that cloud cover has increased markedly in the jet age....

Add the country's fascination with the Jet Age and the conveniences it fostered, and ranch homes morphed into machines for living, fully equipped with every modern device.

«Remember all the talk about the jet age during the late - 1940s and early 1950s?»