Sentences with word «jetliner»

A jetliner is a large passenger aircraft that is powered by jet engines. It is designed to transport a large number of people over long distances efficiently and quickly. Full definition
The world's biggest maker of jetliners expects to deliver between 760 and 765 commercial aircraft this year.
The Boeing 777 is the most widely operated wide - body commercial jetliner in the sky today.
Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.
Lucky for R, Julie is not so choked up about Perry's death, leaving her more receptive than you'd suspect to the attentions of her new gentleman zombie pal, who smuggles her onto an empty jetliner on the tarmac of an abandoned airport, advising her in grunts and groans that can barely be parsed as human language that she needs to stay on board with him for a few days, until the rest of his zombie buddies conveniently forget she's around.
A struggle against groups that fly jetliners into buildings requires the steely resolve that hard just war theory contributes.
And what the Syndicate seems to be about reflects the confusions and complexities of how the world is working, and how it is falling apart, in the 2010s: Hunt insists that seemingly disparate events — World Bank crises; missing passenger jetliners; military coups in banana republics — are all the doing of the Syndicate.
Difficult because news images of the burning, gutted Twin Towers stirs up the feelings that followed the impact of four commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and an open field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner continued in a much smaller strip of the southern Indian Ocean Wednesday...
The industry's been using composites in a significant way since 1988, when Airbus delivered the first A320 jetliner with a primary structure featuring 17 % composites.
MONTREAL / PARIS, May 2 - Bombardier Inc and Airbus SE named new leaders for the CSeries jetliner program on Wednesday, in a further step towards finalizing a deal for the European planemaker to take control of the Canadian project, according to memos seen by Reuters.
Technicians build LEAP engines for jetliners at a new, highly automated General Electric (GE) factory.
Do we PC gamers spend every waking hour playing the titles that make our graphics cards whizz like jetliners taking off?
Boeing's recent success in obtaining duties of nearly 300 percent against a new jetliner made outside Montreal by Bombardier dominated Canadian news reports and parliamentary debate.
MONTREAL, April 25 - Airbus SE and Bombardier aim to close a deal giving the European planemaker a majority stake in the Canadian company's CSeries jetliner program by the end of May, ahead of an initial timetable, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.
Airbus is drawing up contingency plans to phase out production of the world's largest jetliner, the A380 superjumbo, if it fails to win a key order from Dubai's Emirates, three people familiar with the matter said.
Chinese farmers need American soybeans to feed their livestock, and the country's rapidly growing aviation industry is ordering a lot of Boeing jetliners to help meet demand.
Even so, as surely as every modern jetliner runs primarily on autopilot, tomorrow's military robots will increasingly operate on their own initiative.
How distressing to see those four - color laminated placemats of the Rapture, complete with wrecked cars and crashed jetliners!
Two Asian airlines have placed orders for a total of more than 100 of a higher - fuel - efficiency version of Airbus's A320 jetliner, with combined sticker prices topping $ 10 billion.
That is because global warming, driven in part by the colossal fossil fuel consumption of today's massive global jetliner fleet, is expected to generate stronger wind shear within the stratospheric jetstreams.
American Airlines is eyeing more seats on its Boeing 737 Max jetliners.
In July of 1976, Israeli Defense Forces invaded Uganda's Entebbe airport for a daring rescue of hostages from a hijacked jetliner out of Tel Aviv.
This glamorous villa, located on one of the most desirable LA streets, has jetliner views from the entire home overlooking the city, combining Old Hollywood with a contemporary lifestyle.
They would represent the proper evolution of aircraft bone yards, whose time should have passed long ago, into beautiful jetliner home communities, whose time is long, long overdue.
Besides drastically cutting carbon emissions, more efficient jetliners have proven critical for airlines» financial bottom lines, and companies clinging to outdated technology are paying the price, as evidenced by this week's American Airlines...
In another incident just three months later, an Air Tahiti wide - body jetliner flying out of Los Angeles nearly crashed into a small private plane flying two miles above the ocean.
The pulse of energy transferred from seabed to water, traveling at jetliner speed, was already most of the way across the Bay of Bengal and approaching unsuspecting villagers and tourists, fishermen and bathers, from the eight - foot - high coral strands of the Maldives to the teeming shores of Sri Lanka and eastern India.
As for where future profits will come from, Bombardier's new CSeries jetliners appear poised to take off in 2014.
Today, the world is a year into the mystifying disappearance of the enormous jetliner that was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 without any sort of resolution.
Boeing alleges that Bombardier benefited from illegal government subsidies and sold jetliners below cost.
A string of recent incidents — the apparent bombing of a Russian jetliner over Egypt; the attacks in Paris and the mass shooting in California; and now a hoax bomb threat that caused an Air France 777 with over 460 people aboard to divert to Kenya — has left citizens on edge, to the point where many have canceled their holiday travel plans.
A private jet pioneer, Abercrombie & Kent originally launched its trailblazing around - the - world journeys in 1989 aboard a luxuriously refitted Lockheed L - 1011 Tristar jetliner.
Boeing is looking ahead to a brave new world where jetliners fly without pilots and aims to test some of the technology next year, the world's biggest plane maker said in a briefing ahead of the Paris Airshow.
That excludes high - end Boeing Co. jetliners such as the 747 and 777, leaving Beijing additional high - profile targets for possible future rounds of the conflict.
The stock just posted its worst month since January as the company's marquee jetliner suffered another setback and concern deepened about business - aircraft demand.
The Trump administration's recent move to slap 219 percent tariffs on Canadian jetliners to block a sale to Delta have reinforced Canada's view that the courts are needed to restrain U.S. measures.
Aircraft maker Boeing Co plans to build a «completion» factory in China for its 737 jets, anticipating the country will need 6,800 new jetliners worth $ 1 trillion over the next 20 years.
Both of these fictional accounts have jetliners losing power and raining down across America — a horrific scenario, especially when you consider that there may be five thousand commercial aircraft in our airspace at a given time.
Henderson may appear to opposing infielders as a 5» 10», 180 - pound human jetliner, but in person he's a sweet - tempered, boyish young man who gabs with spectators during a game and who kept his mother, Bobbie, and his fiancée, Pamela Palmer, at his side during the last trying days of his run for the record.
Trump said the projected cost of new Air Force One aircraft was too high, so the U.S. Air Force found a way to lower it: by buying a pair of Boeing 747 jetliners abandoned by a bankrupt Russian airline.
He was a federal prosecutor in the United States attorney's office from 1992 to 2001, and worked on several high - profile cases, including the prosecution of four defendants for conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; the prosecution of four defendants in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial; and the prosecution of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and two others in a conspiracy to plant bombs aboard jetliners in the Far East.
A U.S. Airways jetliner that took off from LaGuardia Airport Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River minutes after liftoff, and it appears all 155 people...
Solar planes are not quite ready to displace jetliners, though.
(At the time of my visit last spring, the technology didn't exist yet, and DeLong was working to develop it with manufacturers of scales that weigh jetliners.)
By TARA PATEL Aerospace manufacturers are pressing ahead with their plans to develop the next generation of supersonic jetliners despite renewed uncertainty about the environmental impact of exhaust emissions that could ground the high - speed aircraft.
In addition to 421 firefighters, police officers, and other emergency responders, as well as 157 jetliner crew members and passengers, 2,245 people lost their lives.

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