Sentences with phrase «of airplane flights»

On two days of airplane flights over the area, the research team detected high concentrations of methane in the atmosphere.

AS&E says the radiation dose from a backscatter x-ray, less than 10 microrems, is the same received from natural sources during two minutes of an airplane flight at 30,000 feet.

I bet you'd turn your nose away too even with the best impression of an airplane flight.

What It's About: «The story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after gliding his plane along the water in the Hudson River, saving all of the airplane flight 155's crew and passengers.»

FOR BODY SCANNERS: The TSA claims, «Each full body scan produces less than 10 microREM of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of an airplane flight at altitude.»

Once again, I was reminded of an airplane flight.

It's not worth the cost of a airplane flight to Billings.»

Not exact matches

A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Newark, New Jersey, diverted to Cleveland on Wednesday because of a cracked airplane window.

After noticing that he got some of his best work done on long intercontinental flights, Guido established «Airplane Days» to help him get things done.

Len Schumann, also from the Institute of Aircraft Design, said that the e-Genius behaved like a «conventional airplane» during flight, and that its performance was also comparable to conventional airplanes.

An example is the program begun by the late Al Ueltshci, founder of FlightSafety, a pioneer in training airplane pilots using flight simulators.

Passengers tired of reading the in - flight magazine and airplane safety card tucked into the seat in front of them have been begging the airline to roll

The name of Davidson's movement is a verbal twist on the «airplane mode» you can set a phone to while in flight.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

Still, the reclassification of costs for two 787 Dreamliner flight - test airplanes, tough decisions around 747 production (slow sales led to unsold aircraft), and higher costs on developing models weighed on operating performance.

After the violent dragging of passenger David Dao off a United flight last April, travelers have fretted about the legal practice of bumping passengers off of airplanes.

Passengers tired of reading the in - flight magazine and airplane safety card tucked into the seat in front of them have been begging the airline to roll out on - board Wi - Fi for years.

That means full - time flight attendants receiving a starting wage of $ 25.29 per hour of flying time, won't be compensated for time on the ground preparing airplanes for service, deplaning passengers or any activities before or after flights.

Airbus is using Stratasys» production - grade printers to print flight parts for its new A350 XWB airplane; the first one of these planes delivered in December 2014 had more than 1,000 3D - printed parts installed in it.

According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, the best way to avoid catching a cold on an airplane is to sit in a window seat — and stay there for the entirety of the flight.

Google users were also curious about the prices of gold, airplane flights, steel and petrol.

Just last month, Southwest Airlines promised to end the practice of overbooking flights in an effort to no longer inconvenience passengers who are bumped off when the airplanes reach maximum capacity.

Airplane black boxes Recent aviation disasters such as the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crash highlight the importance of black boxes on airplanes.

He is an FAA - certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with over 4,500 hours of flight experience and ratings in airplanes, helicopters, seaplanes, gliders, and six types ofFlight Instructor with over 4,500 hours of flight experience and ratings in airplanes, helicopters, seaplanes, gliders, and six types offlight experience and ratings in airplanes, helicopters, seaplanes, gliders, and six types of jets.

I started reading In Pursuit as a duty at the beginning of a long airplane flight and ended up forgetting to look at the spectacular scenery.

Alfred N. Whitehead, scientist, mathematician, and philosopher, has described the path of human progress this way: «The true method of discovery is like the flight of an airplane.

As regards the method of descriptive generalization, Whitehead compared it to the flight of an airplane.

It wasn't the free market that hijacked the airplanes and cross-promoted them into bombs, or Adam Smith's invisible hand that cut the throats of the pilots on what they thought was a flight to Los Angeles.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 8) Whitehead used his famous example of the flight of an airplane to illustrate the proper method of doing speculative philosophy.

Whitehead compared the development of the speculative system to the flight of an airplane (PR 4f; cf. 7 - 9, 203 - 5).

In his latest book, historian David McCullough tells the story of The Wright Brothers, who famously made the first successful manned flight with their own homemade airplane.

On the subject of packing food for airplane flights, it appears that a number of you were curious about how I go about it.

These are the foods you dream of eating when on a road trip or airplane flight.

There aren't many things more disturbing to me than a glance at myself bathed in the florescent vanity lighting of an airplane bathroom five hours into a flight - particularly a bumpy flight.

«We're part of the Heritage Flight program, which you see primarily at air shows flying WWII vintage, or Korea and Vietnam era vintage airplanes with modern fighters, A-10s, F - 16s,» Maj. Dan Levy, who's flying one of the A-10, said.

Although for us * three was the new two * in a lot of cases, I'm actually quite proud to say that we have not once been kicked off a flight, that in spite of a mid-flight barf - o-rama and the odd airplane toilet drama, we made it through our toddler flying years relatively unscathed.

Although for us * three was the new two * in a lot of cases, I'm actually quite proud to say that we have not once been kicked off a flight, that in spite of a mid-flight barf - o-rama and the odd airplane toilet drama, we've made it through our years of flying with toddlers relatively unscathed.

Kids Activities Blog experiments with a paper airplane design to see what effect a small change will have on the direction of flight.

Flight attendant Jo Roby spent the first few months of her daughter's life pumping breast milk on the floor in airport bathrooms or setting up in tiny airplane toilets to pump.

Once when I was doing the standard Walk Up and Down the Airplane Aisle with Screaming Vomity Baby, the two flight attendants in our coach section came back from the front of the plane — business or first — with two clean onesies and a pair of those pants you put over diapers.

T was his ever - awake self on the airplane and slept a total of an hour on both flights combined, but he has a Gypsy soul (Gypsy soul, Ethiopian blood, Pagan parents, Hebrew name) and loves to be on the move, so at least he was cheery.

One never knows how the child will behave on an airplane, and a dreaded temper tantrum breaking out during the middle of the flight is a true possibility.

Kids love this sort of thing and it is also wonderful for the road trip or airplane flight to Grandma's house!

The airplane story reminds me of our flight from Amsterdam to San Francisco when our daughter was five months old (now 4 momths ago).

For instance, in her Scary Mommy post on «how to survive an airplane ride with kids,» Joelle Wisler advises to skip bringing «a million toys» and instead to «ask your flight attendant for a couple of plastic cups and some straws.»

You will have a moment to get out of the cramped airplane and walk around the terminal before your next flight.

Whether it's monitoring the integrity of buildings during earthquakes or airplane wings during flight, so - called strain sensors are getting more and more important for our safety.

1 EXPERIENCING TURBULENCE Koblin used the Bézier method of curve analysis (which coincidentally is also used to design airplane bodies) to accentuate any flight plan changes hidden by the map's massive scale.

In their experiment, the researchers used the dual - based IR remote sensing system to observe the spectral curves of the sun and airplanes in flight from distances up to 6 kilometers (4 miles).

Packing for Mars had moments of extreme, unbeatable fun, like the zero - gravity flight in an airplane nicknamed the «vomit comet» [which nosedives for 20 to 25 seconds at a time to produce weightlessness inside].