Sentences with phrase «long test flight»

However, the change isn't a done deal yet, as NASA needs to figure out if it can accommodate a longer test flight.

A longer test flight could have more benefits than just continuous access to the station, though.

Not exact matches

That is a higher altitude and longer flight time than any other missile the country has test - launched, according to several South Korean analysts reached by the Associated Press.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Anyone visiting Disney World should be prepared to stand in long lines, but Animal Kingdom's new Avatar: Flight of Passage ride will truly put your patience to the test.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was coming up, which would serve as the perfect trial by fire — the long flight across the Atlantic would let me test the tablet's entertainment functionality while the conference itself, from which I'd have to file stories, would serve as a good work scenario.

After a very long flight (don't ever air travel with your toddler in your third trimester of pregnancy) my day was made a little brighter when upon returning home I found a box filled with sweet, chocolate nut spreads waiting to be taste - tested.

Gaitan has long impressed as one of the best players in the Portuguese top flight, and may now be ready to test himself in a stronger league at the end of this season.

In the end, it is left to Leonardo to best express the passion to be airborne, in a comment that suggests that he did test his own flying machines: «Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.»

«The craft could keep flying as long as the energy source, in this case the laser beam, is uninterrupted,» says Robert Burdine, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, who was laser project manager for the test.

Researchers from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems use a long - duration - flight simulator at NPP Zvezda to test how cosmonauts might respond to the physical and psychological stresses of being confined in cramped quarters on a journey to Mars.

The engineering test article for Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser «spaceplane» flew its long - awaited second free flight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSflight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSFlight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSB-...]

Chosen technologies will be thoroughly ground - and flight - tested in relevant operating environments — reducing risks to future flight missions, gaining operational heritage, and continuing NASA's long history as a technological leader.

For thirty years, he had taken tens of thousands of measurements of variously shaped surfaces moving at different angles through the air using a «whirling arm,» a long pole that extended horizontally from a fixed vertical pole and spun at a preset velocity, a device originally developed to test the flight of cannonballs.

Using our standard battery tests, we have determined that Google's claim of 9 hours of HD video is true, although it assumes that the video is downloaded on the tablet itself (which is normal for let say, a long flight).

But the NOOK GlowLight is sturdy enough to take whatever you dish out, so long as you're not actively torture testing it or tossing it down a flight of stairs.

But I had a few long - haul economy flights this year, which gave me a chance to road - test the J - pillow: a travel pillow that won the «British invention of the year» in 2013.

This usually involves booking flights on new aircraft while the airlines are testing them out on short - haul routes before letting them loose on the longer routes they were designed to fly.

This usually involves booking flights on new aircraft while the airlines are testing them out on short - haul routes before letting them loose on the longer routes...

KLM will be using this procedure on three flights a day, namely to Berlin, Budapest, and Helsinki, and plans to expand its test of the new process to other European and long - haul flights in 2014.

Following this, Tracey assisted those Test Claimants who were giving evidence in person in London on the long flight to the UK, accompanying them to court, during their time in London and on the return flight to Kenya, following hugely successful depositions.

One of the coolest things to happen in space and automotive news in a long time was the successful launch of Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster atop a Falcon Heavy rocket during the first test flight for the new rocket.

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