Sentences with phrase «jet airliner»

A "jet airliner" is a type of airplane that is designed to carry many passengers and is powered by jet engines. Full definition
Since Revelution US has done anything it can against Iran (Even Iran Air Flight 655 which was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988).
Slattery called Embraer's E-Jet E2 — its series of medium - range twin - engine jet airliners — a «profit hunter,» and wants to deliver that aircraft to more airlines in Asia.
By this model jet airliners fly up in «Heaven», but before the invention of the telescope how was anyone to know any different?
As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.
# 27 Straighten up and fly right... «The only way to get from Los Angeles to London is by carbon - spewing jet airliner.
This almost seems like quoting Orville Wright about jet airliner design issues.
By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.
She was just about to launch the world's first jet airliner, and was on the verge of utilising nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
«I don't think jet airliners will be flapping anytime soon,» says Russ Tedrake of the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT, which has experimented with a flapping - wing craft dubbed «Phoenix.»
NASA's most recent workhorse for Operation IceBridge has been a DC - 8 jet airliner, a model that went out of production in the early 1970s.
The captain of a large jet airliner had just switched off the seat belt sign when Susan's heart started to race, she was getting palpitations and sweaty palms and even feeling a tiny bit of sickness in her tummy.
After some wooing of Solange, Bond discovers Dimitrios» plans involving the destruction of a new jet airliner in Miami.
Jet airliners take off and land at slower speeds.
It's not perfect, but like the classic Comet jet airliner, the Honda CR - Z points the way to the future
By the time jet airliners were introduced, first class cabins had moved to the front of the plane.
Operated 50 passenger turbine powered jet airliners according to strict FAA and company regulations
Syosset, NY About Blog A blog about American jet airliner 787.
The Boeing 752 is a mid-size, narrow - body twin - engine jet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iran — Iraq War.
An Airbus A380 jet airliner (top), a Boeing 777 jet airliner (L), and the Al Fursan aerobatic team in flight at the 2017 Dubai Airshow.
My relationship to computers is roughly comparable to that of a caveman trying to fly a jet airliner.
Consumer drones pose far less of a threat to high - flying commercial aircraft; a jet airliner is in drone airspace only during takeoff and landing, and is very fast - moving target for a quadcopter.
The calculated speed limit would have ranged somewhere between 2,700 and 14,400 kilometers an hour (1,677 to 8,948 miles an hour; even the lowest end of the range is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of 747 jet airliners).
Under the credits, the film introduced Mr. Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), a first - class passenger on a jet airliner, who first declined a movie videocassette from the flight attendant, claiming he preferred the theater, but then acquiesed when she again asked: «Would you consider the cinema of the Ukraine?»
Conversely, Motor Trend had some rather unkind words about the interior design: «The overall design of the dash is unconventional and brings to mind the cockpit of a jet airliner, but it looks as though Lexus has simply dropped in parts wherever they fit with little thought to aesthetics.»
A jet airliner getting stuck in the airport tarmac appeared to be one of the more unusual incidents that occurred in the Washington area amid a blistering string of daily temperatures above 95 degrees.
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