Sentences with phrase «miles after landing»

According to a new survey, travelling up to 200 miles after landing at an airport is when the holiday really begins.

Not exact matches

After flying away from the prison, the woman and the three prisoners had the pilot land about four miles from the prison.

The missile crashed soon after launch because of engine failure and landed in a complex of either industrial or agricultural buildings in Tokchon, about 40 miles away.

Clearing trees beside railway lines can cause soil erosion and even land slippageSandra Laville's article (Mile after mile of stumps: anger at trackside tree cull, 30 April) once again highlights decisions about tree care and management being made without a full understanding of the roles of trees and other vegetation in the landscape.

DUNDEE TOWNSHIP — A proposed 5 - mile highway linking Barrington Hills and Algonquin got a boost Wednesday night after the Dundee Township Park District approved a land swap.

Some of these exploded shortly after launch, but others travelled for hundreds of miles before landing in the sea.

But after losing a lawsuit, the Adirondack Park Agency is now proposing a change in the Adirondack land - use plan in hopes of clearing the way for the 34 - mile multi-use trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

That is apparently what happened to the 99 villagers of Miaohe, 10 miles (17 kilometers) upstream of the Yangtze, who saw the land behind their homes split into a 655 - foot -(200 - meter --RRB- wide crack last year, soon after the reservoir water level was lowered for the summer floods.

After not quite sticking the landing on its 4 billion - mile journey to Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko last November, the Philae lander managed to complete its primary science mission in just 64 hours before losing power.

After flying 5,209 miles in 84 hours and 31 minutes, Double Eagle V crash - landed in Mendocino National Forest in California.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

Meant to be the third lunar landing attempt, the Apollo 13 mission was aborted after an oxygen tank ruptured 200,000 miles into space in 1970.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

«We have scored a 300 - million mile interplanetary hole - in - one,» quipped Cornell University's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the rover's science instruments, in a press release in the days after the landing.

But not is all as it seems: mere minutes after the paratroopers land in the Alps, miles from civilization, Major John Smith (Burton) sneaks off for some secret nookie — err, a secret field debriefing?

Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» was the first major festival splash after that, premiering on Aug. 31 within hours of another instant player, Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour,» though they debuted thousands of miles apart; «Shape» landed in Venice followed by «Darkest Hour» in the mountains of Telluride.

So while an 800 - mile stretch of California land is located on the San Andreas Fault, an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter Scale may be possible, but you can't even retaliate after the devastation.

But after I've spent a few hundred miles in the newest Jaguar XJ, plus some additional time at various auto shows soaking in its luxurious interior — at once old - world cosseting and gloriously modern — it seems clear in retrospect that Ford's tenure, which officially ended in 2008 when Jaguar was sold along with Land Rover to Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, was more benign than not.

Land Rover Expedition America is more than halfway across the country, three weeks after having departed Asheville, N.C., on their 5,000 - mile route through 10 states.The team is traveling all the way...

And long after you happily drive off of our lot in a sophisticated Land Rover, you can count on our state - of - the - art service department to keep it running in pristine condition for many miles to come!

After the 60,000 - mile mark, all Land Rover vehicles should be brought in every 15,000 miles for the recommended inspections above.

After an extensive search I landed on investing in remote rental properties — thousands of miles away where I can get the best deals and don't have to deal with being a landlord.

Jackson Hole Airport is only 25 miles away to ensure you can be on the mountains within less than an hour after landing.

A hike along the 1.2 - mile stretch of coast in San Francisco's northwest corner provides the visitors access to the beauty and transformative impact of native plant restoration, as Lands End can now (after a 100 - year hiatus) boast of having San Francisco's best springtime wildflower display.

After a renovation to transform what was a sandbank into dry land using material that was dredged from the bay, this 1.2 mile strip is known as a top destination for super-yachts.

The flexibility of a stopover (staying at a destination more than 24 hours after landing en route to another destination) on a one - way international award (2 total for round - trip flights), 2 open - jaws (departing from a different city than the one you landed in), and Starwood Preferred Guest and Alaska credit cards to generate points and miles would be the first option I would consider.

Qantas flight 9 (QF9) from Perth, which is the capital of Western Australia, landed at 5:02 AM after a long 17 hour flight that covered over 9,000 miles.

In 1973, after walking over 1,000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head, Scotland to Land's End, England, Fulton made the decision to «only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks.»

It is good enough that we can successfully land a fridge on a comet after a journey of 500 million miles lasting 4000 days.

by striking all after the first sentence and inserting the following: Extension and delineation of lateral offshore State boundaries under the provisions of this Act shall follow the lines used to determine the Adjacent Zones of coastal States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the extent such lines extend twelve nautical miles for the nearest coastline.

Bill Kristol Says Offshore Drilling Should be Brought Closer to Land The conservative thought leader Bill Kristol has made a remarkably idiotic statement in the wake of the BP oil spill — saying that «If we hadn't stopped closer - in drilling after the Santa Barbara accident 40 years ago — we've had these Congressional restrictions until 2008, for 40 years — we'd have more drilling closer in which is probably less dangerous, less treacherous than trying to drill 50 miles out from the coast,» in a discussion on Fox News.

After taking into account environmental protections and other factors, Glenn's report estimates that 480,000 square miles of unused land around the world could be used to grow a special set of salt - tolerant plants — halophytes.

The «plateau effect» is named after the geologic formation called a plateau: a level stretch of land that extends for many miles.

Soon after Roberts and his fellow owners landed a house, Sutter and his group purchased their home a half - mile away.