Sentences with phrase «modern airliners»

Taking a page from the glass cockpits of modern airliners, Audi's new digital gauge cluster, or «virtual cockpit», allows the driver to not only configure the information displayed to suit their own preferences, but also offers a massive, Google Earth view of the car's current location.

Yet at least in one area — namely computational fluid dynamics, or CFD — the design tools that helped give us the modern airliners flying today are not expected to be up to the challenge in the future without some serious upgrades.

The main industry trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, commissioned studies that showed U.S. plants could sustain a direct hit from a modern airliner without any radiation release.

The entire CRU - type calculation requires 65 lines of python code (by comparison, a modern airliner requires upwards of a million lines of code to fly).

Not exact matches

Questions on the safety of modern aircraft raised in your report on the loss of an airliner in the mid-Atlantic on 1 June may never be answered if the plane's «black box» flight recorders can not be found (13 June, p 19).

Co-founder Mark Massie said building modern nuclear reactors on first - generation technology is analogous to building airliners out of the same wood and cloth the Wright brothers used in their prototype (ClimateWire, Dec. 15, 2014).

So the problem is: can current non-electrical energy usage be converted to electrical substitutes (think airliners) or can «modern» consume - more - tomorrow - than - today society be convinced to use considerably less energy?

Typically at cruise in a modern jet airliner these are approximately equal which minimises total drag.

Jet aircraft developed with military R&D; expenditures led to modern commercial airliners.