Sentences with phrase «jumbo jet in»

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?

When we leased our first 747 jumbo jet in 1984, I knew very little about the airline business, beyond the fact that I had flown a lot as a record executive and disliked it.

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In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient modelIn the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient modelin favor of more fuel - efficient models.

A person who needs to get from home to work doesn't care if he gets there in a BMW or a Volvo any more than you care whether Boeing or Airbus makes the jumbo jet you fly in.

The incident aboard an Airbus A380 jumbo jet that had been pushed back from its gate bound for Incheon, near Seoul, provoked outrage in South Korea when it was reported on Monday.

In the dream, itâ $ ™ s late 1985 and Peter Lougheed is piloting a jumbo jet through Albertaâ $ ™ s blue forever skies.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

As Shaquille O'Neal prepared to tool away from the Los Angeles Lakers» practice facility last Friday in his black Mercedes - Benz, he turned down the bass on his stereo to jumbo - jet decibel level, flashed a sly smile and said, «I want to show you something.»

Pence, who flew to the military facility with his wife, second lady Karen Pence, aboard a C - 17 military jumbo jet, praised the troops» service in helping combat Islamic State fighters in nearby Syria.

Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons, the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name

We're better off with a duopoly, and in fact we get duopoly precisely because vigorous competition between the jumbo jet giants keeps everyone else out.»

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

Saving ozone with a no - go zone: Jumbo jets are spending more time in the stratosphere than previously realised, and their emissions are damaging the ozone layer.

Each of the reactor's toroidal field coils weighs as much as a fully laden jumbo jet, and there are 18 of them in total.

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flighIn that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flighin its boost phase of flight.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

But many nuclear physicists and engineers are not on board with nuclear airplanes, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks during which terrorists plowed jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The 150,000 - pound shuttle Enterprise never made it into orbit, but it did fly in tests on top of a 747 jumbo jet.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand at John F. Kennedy International Airport when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday morning.

My lashes were completed with Clinique Chubby Lash Mascara in Jumbo Jet.

We're introduced to Barry (Cruise) while he's sitting in the cockpit of a jumbo jet.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.

In 1970, Boeing introduced the world's first jumbo jet.

there's a «UAW» (type) saying that goes» If Jumbo's jet engines were designed to be worked on by monkeys, and they could, we would be in real trouble!

Flying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Florida.

I like that they managed to squeeze the seats in an A380 jumbo jets to make it feel like the space of a domestic carrier plane.

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.

The episode featured an American couple defying the laws of physics by arriving at the tiny airfield in San Pedro in a jumbo jet while showing B - roll footage of the Philip Goldson International Airport in Belize City on the mainland.

There's nothing that excites me more than having a plane ticket in hand and seeing a jumbo jet ready to take me on my next...

«Hanging out at Maho Beach in Saint Marten is hilarious, as landing and taking off jumbo jets come in very closely overhead.

Crowning the three hotel towers at 200 metres in the sky, the Sands SkyPark stretches longer than the Eiffel tower or four A380 Jumbo Jets when laid down.

The video depicts players setting up barricades and small forms of mobile cover, flanking and firing upon would be hostage - takers in the confines of a jumbo jet.

Take on the role of the captain of a troubled jumbo jet carrying infected passengers intent on bringing the plane out of the sky, or pit yourself against hundreds of zombies in the interior of a jumbo jet or even walk along the outside as you fight to regain control as one of the passengers in this innovative and interactive gaming experience like no other.

For the same reason that Jumbo Jets don't have the grand pianos and palm - court cocktail bars we were originally promised in the brochures, the accountants naturally won the day.

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In testimony to a US Senate hearing last year, Peter J. Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University school of medicine described the deaths as the equivalent of two jumbo jets falling out of the sky every 24 hours.

Thus, building gas - electric hybrids using the new advanced polymer composites, which are being introduced by Boeing in its new 787 Dreamliner jumbo jet, can cut the remaining 20 percent of fuel use by another half, for a total reduction of 90 percent.

We don't live in the part of the atmosphere where radiation is dominant unless you're flight crew on a jumbo jet.

In fact, as this great video shows at the end, flying is cheaper than ever, half of what it cost thirty years ago, when they were already flying jumbo jets.

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