Sentences with phrase «kilometers per hour on»

This superefficient aircraft travels slower than a moped, averaging just 50 kilometers per hour on most trips, with its four electrical engines capable of putting out the maximum 10 - horsepower each, solely for takeoff and landing.

With trains allowed to run in excess of 320 kilometers per hour on some stretches, state officials estimate a trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco could take as little as two and a half hours.

The law requires motorists to travel at 50kph on standard roads, 80 kilometers per hour on a highway and 100 kilometers per hour on a motorway, but this is largely ignored.

Not exact matches

It can hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some of the quickest small passenger aircrafts.

I'm only now realizing the extent to which Laidlaw and Peter Oosterhuis dwell on the wind, which is gusting up to 30 kilometers per hour in Spain.

Still, the average speed during peak hours on expressways increased slightly to 39.8 miles (64.1 kilometers) per hour in 2014 from 39 miles (62.7 kilometers) per hour in 2004.

The finding, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on an analysis of 506 race - ending crashes in Formula One — a class of racing featuring single - seater, open wheeled cars and speeds in excess of 350 kilometers per hour — between 1970 and 2014.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Then, they measured the distance between the footprints and used an equation based on observations of living, walking bipeds to estimate the dinosaur's walking speed, yielding a result between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour), they report online this month and in a forthcoming print issue of Cretaceous Research.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

On October 19, the comet whizzed past the Red Planet at a little more than 20,000 kilometers per hour.

On October 12, 1979, Typhoon Tip generated peak wind speeds of 300 kilometers per hour.

When Hurricane Maria's 250 - kilometer - per - hour winds slammed into Puerto Rico on September 20, they spurred floods, destroyed roads and flattened homes across the island.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

The jets ascend at 180,000 to 360,000 kilometers per hour from 300 - kilometer - wide bright spots on the surface called spicules.

On 16 September, 209 - kilometer - per - hour winds tore through the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center late in the afternoon, damaging or destroying a dozen greenhouses, three buildings, and 800 trees in a research arboretum.

If Curiosity survives its «Seven Minutes of Terror,» slowing from 21,240 kilometers per hour to a dead stop on the surface, it will demonstrate a brand new and downright scary - looking system for delivering heavy loads precisely where scientists want them.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distancOn a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distancon or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

Far - flung coastal communities accustomed to the Pacific Ocean's mighty onslaughts were flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense storms currently on record, with sustained winds ripping through their streets at around 320 kilometers per hour and gusts reaching 370 kph.

Hummingbirds are the fighter pilots of the avian world, diving and weaving at speeds of up to 55 kilometers per hour — then turning on a dime to hover midair, wings frantically beating, as they refuel on nectar.

Maria's eye assaulted the town of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of nearly 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour)-- the high end of category 4 — making it the strongest storm to hit the island since the San Ciprian Hurricane of 1932.

Frequent cell phone users, for example, zoomed along about 4.4 kilometers per hour faster on average and changed lanes twice as often, compared with rare users.

However, when it made landfall on the Leeward Islands, located to the south and east of Puerto Rico, Irma's sustained winds were clocked at over 185 miles (295 kilometers) per hour before the recording station went offline, a record for the islands.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about 1,200 kilometers per second or 2.7 million miles per hour.

While originally classified as a comet, observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second).

The main Mickey face has a digital speedometer (in kilometers per hour) at its center surrounded by a wildly swinging power needle that ranges from Charge (during regenerative braking) on the left to Power (full acceleration) at the right.

As a friendly reminder, the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk not only comes loaded with a 707 - hp engine, but is also able to sprint to 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour) in just 3.5 seconds, continuing on to a quarter mile of 11.6 seconds, and a top speed of 180 mph (289 kmh).

If you pedal for an hour it will keep you going for between 2 - 3 hours depending on terrain with a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

With either a 250 or 500 W rear hub motor providing the electric boost, the Greaser can reach speeds of 35 kph (21.7 mph), depending on the setup, and has a range per charge of about 50 kilometers (31 miles), with a charging time of about 4 hours.

Since then, NPP reached its final orbit at an altitude of 512 miles (824 kilometers), powered on all instruments and is traveling around the Earth at 16,640 miles an hour (eight kilometers per second).

Roke was moving northeast toward the Japanese island of Honshu at 35 kilometers per hour (22 miles / hour) and was forecast to come ashore on September 21, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

But unlike those cycles, which create a standing pattern of warmth on one side of the tropical Pacific, the MJO is nearly continuous, creating a migrating cluster of storms that spawns over the western Indian Ocean and moves eastward at 15 — 30 kilometers per hour.

This storm had winds close to 195 miles per hour (315 kilometers per hour) as it approached Guiuan on the Philippine island of Samar.

More recently in October of 2015, Hurricane Patricia became one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Western Hemisphere as sustained winds reached nearly 200 miles per hour (320 kilometers per hour) off Mexico's west coast.

Under the General settings, you'll be able to turn on the shock sensor, which will measure the impact of a collision, and change the unit settings from kilometers per hour to miles.

The International Space Station is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of approximately 17,200 miles per hour (27,600 kilometers per hour) and, as a result, astronauts on board experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets per day as their travel speed zips them around the globe once every 90 minutes or so.