Sentences with phrase «jet flights from»

Sunshine Coast (Maroochydore) Airport just 15 minutes away is serviced daily by jet flights from Sydney and Melbourne.

American, Delta, United and US Airways operate frequent jet flights from BTR to hubs in Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas - Ft.

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

Menendez stands accused of accepting all - expense - paid trips and private jet flights from Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Palm Beach eye doctor, in exchange for help with the doctor's $ 8.9 million Medicare bill and in obtaining visas for the ophthalmologist's young girlfriends.

Not exact matches

After passing through an over-branded jet way from HSBC, choosing in - flight content can be a trickier than a $ 19 book of puzzles from Relay.

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.

Just last month, American Airlines was forced to cancel dozens of flights from Phoenix when temperatures of nearly 120 degrees made it too hot for smaller jets to take off.

A C919 passenger jet takes off from Pudong International Airport for its maiden flight, on May 5, 2017 in Shanghai, China.

Britain on Wednesday scrambled RAF Typhoon fighter jets to escort a Ryanair flight from Lithuania after a hoax security alert.

Otherwise, with an entire weekend to get to our first destination, we probably would not have chosen North Carolina — a two - hour flight by regional jet from our home base in the New York City area.

This new contract is a separate venture from Lockheed Martin's work with Aerion Corp. to develop a supersonic business jet, the AS2, which has its first flight planned for 2023.

Next, a Delta Connection flight operated by Express Jet, en route from New York's La Guardia to Richmond International Airport in Virginia, diverted to Dulles Airport due to «an issue with the landing gear,» according to reports — which turned out to be the fact that one of the wheels had come off.

And on Memorial Day weekend last month the company offered a separate flight program called UberAIR from Boston to Nantucket — but it wasn't on - demand service like that which Uber is known for, as passengers couldn't book a ride on a specific jet.

The prototype of what is believed to be the China's second stealth fighter jet performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, when it took off at 10:32 AM Local Time from the runway of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

Andrea Peyser seizes on former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's recent rejection from a Jet Blue flight to explain why so - called «air rage» is out of control.

Trump said he «didn't think» Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took a government jet from New York to Washington, DC, even though federal investigators are investing the flight that cost taxpayers $ 25,000.

U.S. Hecretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price took private jets on at least five separate flights last week in a stark departure from his predecessors under the Obama administration.

Lord Ashcroft is continuing to offer the use of his jet to frontbenchers and provided a helicopter flight for Cameron from Crewe to London during last month's byelection campaign.

Several high - ranking NYPD officers have been indicted on charges of accepting gifts from two businessmen who also happened to later become donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio — gifts including Christmas presents hand - delivered by the men while they were dressed as elves, and a private jet ride to Las Vegas that included an in - flight prostitute who went by the name Candi.

The various flights of fancy regarding ambergris were perhaps further inspired by the seemingly miraculous transformation of the material from this fresh state — fecal, soft, dense, and jet black on the outside and dark brown inside — to the aged white, porous, and faintly sweet - smelling chunks.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel — liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.

Florida - based Green Flight International plans to fly the old jet — chosen because it has fuel - line heaters to keep the biodiesel from gelling — more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Reno to Orlando, Fla., later this year, pending U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

Tamer Elsayed was jet - lagged after a 24 - hour flight from Cairo when his second cousin and a friend picked him up at the Los Angeles airport in December 1993.

Many survivors of US Airways flight 1549 suffered from hypothermia after the passenger jet crash - landed in the Hudson River.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

The first group to explore producing jet biofuel from such a facility was also announced by KLM after the flight last week — SkyEnergy will be a joint venture for the Dutch airline with North Sea Petroleum and Spring Associates.

Most convincing of all, Knight believes, is that when samples of gut bacteria from the jet - lagged humans were transplanted into healthy mice, the animals gained weight, showed increased blood sugar, and had a higher body fat content compared with animals given the bacteria of participants before their flight.

Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.

But Rodante says the evaluations could be completed within the next few weeks, after which he plans to fly the experimental jet from Reno, Nev., to Orlando, Fla. — the first transcontinental biodiesel flight, in eight stops.

The passengers on board a 1982 British Airways flight from London to Auckland, New Zealand, know that volcanic ash and jet engines are a dangerous mix.

Today's flight represents its efforts to develop alternative jet fuel derived from post-harvest forestry material that is often burned after timber harvest.

Believed to be the world's first alternative jet fuel produced from wood, the fuel meets international ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards, allowing it to be used safely for today's commercial flight.

The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital transport team includes three Survival Flight twin engine helicopters, one fixed - wing jet, a mobile intensive care unit and ground transport access from all regional EMS providers.

SEATTLE — Washington state - based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world's first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests.

I honestly think curing boredom and preventing jet lag almost go hand in hand — you sleep to prevent jet lag, but also to keep yourself from going crazy on a long flight!

Granted, the flight from southern Germany to South Africa is still almost 11 hours, but at least I wouldn't have had to deal with any pesky jet lag.

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?»

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

Bogie is a WWII bomber pilot who goes from running a flight school to testing a top secret new fighter jet.

«The head of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has raised the possibility that no wreckage from the passenger jet may ever be found, revealing authorities have a very poor understanding about how fast or far it traveled,» The Sydney Morning Herald writes.

Mater gets flight instruction from an old timer named Skipper and eventually becomes part of the Falcon Hawk daredevil jet team.

As if aware that all that stuff about Bolivian peasants pining for water might be connected, and queasily, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (a daring cargo - jet escape is similarly cribbed from that film), Quantum of Solace does its level best to strip entire set - pieces from the Bourne series (a knife fight, the close - quarters disarming of government agents, the roof - top flight), forgetting in the process to port over the coherence of Doug Liman or Paul Greengrass choreography.

The jet lag from our flight over from the USA only two days earlier surely didn't help.

My tool box spontaneously combusted after a Jet Engine from missing Malaysian flight 107 fell from the sky through the shop and well you know.

Jet Plane: How It Works introduces young readers to all aspects of jets and the elements necessary for flight, from the pilot to the engine to the landing.

Jet Airways, another partner airline, offers nonstop flights from Paris and London to Mumbai, and London to New Delhi.

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