Sentences with phrase «of aircraft carrier»

Highly effective at working under pressure from the flight deck of an Aircraft Carrier directing multi-million dollar aircraft, to interfacing with customers and major telecommunication personnel resolving phone issues.

The average size of a well pad is 3 - 5 acres, potentially bigger than a football field or even the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Furthermore, the artist stripes off the realistic metaphorical functions of the aircraft carrier.

Handel was also co-curator of Aircraft Carrier, an exhibition that debuted at the Israel Pavilion of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and traveled subsequently to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and to the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City.

Occasionally the game succeeds in doing the familiar so well it becomes exciting again — preparing to launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier, for instance, and the atmospheric dogfight through the clouds that follows — but for the most part it feels tedious despite being so accomplished.

I can vividly remember the wind and mist hitting my face as I came in for a landing on top of an aircraft carrier.

Should the political winds shift, it's possible the Navy may be forced to choose between these new boomers and other vessels, such as the Gerald Ford, America's latest generation of Aircraft Carrier.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

On the issue of rearward visibility (or lack thereof): «You look back there, and it's like the landing deck of an aircraft carrier, with an abrupt dropoff at the far end.

Initially, full throttle feels like departing from the launch pad of an aircraft carrier, but one eventually gets used to its kick - and - rush rhythm.

Let's just say I went very fast, very quickly, before nailing the brakes, which decelerated the Panamera like a fighter jet snagging the arrest wire on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Students will investigate how Navy pilots launch and land high - speed jets on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

«The kids who did this one are going to end up working for CalTrans,» the state Department of Transportation, Brennan says about a no - nonsense bridge looking very much like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

One could dismiss the movie as propaganda for the Navy but only if one could find any scene in the movie that glorifies finding oneself on the bridge of an aircraft carrier over discovering your inner strength in the boxing ring.

Adapted by a small army of screenwriters from the bestselling novel by Max (son of Mel) Brooks, the pic abandons its source material's choral «oral history» structure to hone in on the Lanes, who, after once again negotiating a narrow escape, find themselves ensconced in the relative safety of an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Atlantic.

(To be fair, such is an accurate representation of the bowels of an aircraft carrier.)

Leaving his wife and kids in the belly of the aircraft carrier, he boards a plane and heads for South Korea with an eager young scientist (Elyes Gabel).

It was morphology that had guided him during the war years, when he was director of research for Aerojet Engineering and helped develop (among numerous other innovations leading to dozens of patents) the engines that allowed jet - assisted takeoff, the ingenious solution to the problem of how to get a plane off the short runway of an aircraft carrier.

To make this possible, Boeing has looked to the design of aircraft carrier jets in hopes of building planes with fold - up wings.

Core Conservatives won't like the idea of an aircraft carrier that carries no aircraft.

No Stone Age family could possible manage the «life - support» needs, (for weeks - to - months) of «ALL - THE - ANIMALS -, TWO - BY - TWO», (as biblically - postulated), on a wooden ship less than 3/4's the size of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, (centerpiece, N.Y.C.'s Intrepid museum)!

Air power demo include aircraft belonging to both the embarked squadrons and take place in the vicinity of the aircraft carrier for all the personnel to see.

The hallway reminded me of the corridor of an aircraft carrier I once stayed on during the Kosovo crisis; I shouldn't have been surprised by the room.

The Japanese invasion force called off their invasion of Port Moresby, and three of their aircraft carriers were out of commission.

With this new type of warship, and with the advent of aircraft carriers decades later, naval battles saw a new level of intensity and importance, as they defined the course of wars.

But when taken together, the Ford line of aircraft carriers shows the direction forward as envisioned by the US's naval planners.

It is the nation's only builder of aircraft carriers and one of only two firms that produces nuclear submarines.

if God is offended by something, and God is the All Powerfullest of the All Powerful Sky Pixies, then God is perfectly capable of expressing God's Own Displeasure by causing a rain of aircraft carriers and rabid weasels to fall upon the offender.

He began as an enlisted man serving on one of the aircraft carriers that were so fortuitously away at sea when the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor.

The spokesperson added: «Difficult decisions had to be taken to deal with the MoD's financial blackhole but we are moving towards an enhanced future carrier strike capability with the new Joint Strike Fighter arriving at the same time as the next generation of aircraft carriers.

When S.H.I.E.L.D. becomes compromised by people within the organization, however, Steve is forced to go on the run alongside fellow operative Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), in order to smoke out the traitors and stop them from assuming control of a secret fleet of aircraft carriers designed to eliminate threats before they happen.

A month after he took office, Secretary John Kerry gave Egypt $ 250 million; yet every time one of our aircraft carriers transits the Suez Canal, it costs us a whopping $ 850,000.

Look how they made our top leadership, including the brilliant FDR, believe their ambassadors were negotiating peacing in good faith with us while their massive fleet of aircraft carriers was steaming full speed ahead to reach Hawaii on December 7th, 1941.

Shipbuilders are supposed to engineer a new generation of aircraft carriers there, but flooding shuts the operation down.

Northrop Grumman sees potential damage to billions in shoreline defense infrastructure, such as the imperiled drydock in Hampton Roads built to construct the next generation of aircraft carriers.

Not exact matches

Crucially, the Japanese aircraft carriers that were lost or damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea were not able to participate in the battle, an element that helped secure an American victory.

They sent their own force of three aircraft carriers and prepared Midway's air component for battle.

Shares of the maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners rose as much as 3 percent to $ 125.50.

Essentially small aircraft carriers that can carry troops, the ships are capable of waging war on land, air, and sea.

These factors include, but are not limited to, the prospects of entering into agreements with existing or other carriers to fly new aircraft, ongoing negotiations between SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet and their major partners regarding their contractual obligations, uncertainties regarding operation of new aircraft, the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots, the impact of regulatory issues such as pilot rest rules and qualification requirements, and the ability to obtain aircraft financing.

All four of Japan's heaviest aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu were sunk.

Japanese losses were high — three out of the nine aircraft carriers were sunk, as well as two oil tankers, 395 carrier - based planes, and over 2,000 sailors and airmen.

In late January, the US, Britain and France sent six warships and an aircraft carrier through the Strait of Hormuz, and some units are still there.

Currently the J - 15 launches using a ski - jump arrangement as with Russian and soon UK aircraft but at least one modified J - 15 was photographed with a catapult bridle on its nose wheel for land - based testing of a new magnetic catapult system likely to be used on the next Chinese aircraft carrier, the yet - to - be-named CV - 18, Type 002 aircraft carrier of entirely Chinese indigenous design to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

The new USS Gerald R. Ford, the first new aircraft carrier design from the US Navy in four decades, boasts a slew of improved features that separate it from the previous Nimitz class carriers.

The French flag - carrier was an early target of the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ as it was seen as a terrorist mark and it carried out tests in 2007 on allowing the use of mobile phones on its aircraft.

The US Navy's 10 Nimitz - class flat - top aircraft carriers are the envy of the world, and yet the Navy has a newer, more powerful, and more advanced carrier in the works: the Ford - class.

They pilot and navigate the flight of fixed - wing aircraft on nonscheduled air - carrier routes or helicopters.

It is the lead ship of its class, and is planned to be the first of 10 new aircraft carriers.

History: Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of her class and one of the newest aircraft carriers in the world.