Sentences with phrase «of jumbo jets»

By the 1990s, the IAB had moved so far from its original elegant vision after having been modified beyond recognition over the years (in order to meet the demands of the jet age and, later on, the introduction of jumbo jets) that it was soon considered an eyesore.

Most report being inside a relatively small craft, on the order of jumbo jet scale.

Prior to their first trip to London together, Kuhle checked to find out the length of their jumbo jet.

We're introduced to Barry (Cruise) while he's sitting in the cockpit of a jumbo jet.

First calculated by Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, the summit of Everest, at 29,035 ft, is only just lower than the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet — between 30,000 ft and 36,000 ft.

The video depicts players setting up barricades and small forms of mobile cover, flanking and firing upon would be hostage - takers in the confines of a jumbo jet.

Take on the role of the captain of a troubled jumbo jet carrying infected passengers intent on bringing the plane out of the sky, or pit yourself against hundreds of zombies in the interior of a jumbo jet or even walk along the outside as you fight to regain control as one of the passengers in this innovative and interactive gaming experience like no other.

The sound of rain falling all around you, an arrow or bullet whizzing by your head, or the panning effect of a jumbo jet flying over, these are the kind of head - spinning, duck - for - cover audio experiences that create a more convincing audio experience.

Not exact matches

The company gave the iconic humped jumbo jet, known at the «Queen of the Skies,» a special send - off.

In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.

The company also announced that it will order 14 new 747 jumbo jets from Boeing for added capacity on top of the 14 it purchased from the aircraft manufacturer last September.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

Airbus has pinned hopes of continuing production of its double - decker jumbo jet on Emirates, the world's largest operator of the aircraft which took delivery of its 100th A380 earlier this month.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

This observation caused the late Professor Sir Fred Hoyle and his colleague, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University, to conclude that the evolutionist is asking us to believe that a tornado can pass through a junk yard and assemble a jumbo jet.»

Apparently we're still favourites to capture him, but its gone from as loud as a jumbo jet directly above you, to as quiet as a mouse within a matter of days.

«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.

Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons, the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets.

Ferrying space shuttles across the country is just one of the very odd jobs given to the workhorse jumbo jet

Yes, the threat of war between major powers has declined, he notes, but the ability of small groups or even individuals to wreak enormous havoc — with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, not to mention jumbo jets — has grown.

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

Each of the reactor's toroidal field coils weighs as much as a fully laden jumbo jet, and there are 18 of them in total.

A 2010 Stanford University study found that these domes act like pressure cookers, exacerbating pollution's harmful health effects, and may already be responsible for up to 1,000 excess deaths across the country, the equivalent of two jumbo jet crashes every single year.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flight.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

But many nuclear physicists and engineers are not on board with nuclear airplanes, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks during which terrorists plowed jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The 150,000 - pound shuttle Enterprise never made it into orbit, but it did fly in tests on top of a 747 jumbo jet.

Beyond the jumbo jet sitting at the nearest gate, across a wide stretch of tarmac and behind another row of smaller planes was a long low building I had never noticed before.

But the German accent she is forced to wrangle is hammier than a jumbo jet full of wurst.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.

It wore an optional winglike appendage on its rear that seems bigger than anything this side of a 767 jumbo jet.

Water and sanitation problems have reached boiling point; children are dying unnecessarily at the rate of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.

Dividend paying stocks have a good track record of returning value, but what if the unforeseen happens, like some jumbo jet crashing into a building.

I like that they managed to squeeze the seats in an A380 jumbo jets to make it feel like the space of a domestic carrier plane.

Featuring an entire jumbo jet, army vehicles, emergency vehicles, a submarine and much more, this museum is a treasure trove of vehicular delights and is well worth a visit.

Joining Peter Greenberg will be Scott McCartney, Travel Editor for The Wall Street Journal, describing some of the outlandish amenities you can find on a private jumbo jet, including showers and multiple rooms.

, overtaking sounding like a Jumbo Jet and frightening the hell out of me again before disappearing around the next corner!

The episode featured an American couple defying the laws of physics by arriving at the tiny airfield in San Pedro in a jumbo jet while showing B - roll footage of the Philip Goldson International Airport in Belize City on the mainland.

It's wonderfully simple and really, could there possibly be anything more brilliant than pulling an entire jumbo jet out of the sky with your teeth?

Conflicts with the Wilkersons, the nature of a mysterious downed jumbo jet, and various other dangling narrative threads will remain dangling.

Social media, 24 - hour news channels, and embedded reporters feed us an avalanche of information with breaking news reports of every crisis from a missing jumbo jet to a Congress that is immobilized by its own dogma.

In testimony to a US Senate hearing last year, Peter J. Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University school of medicine described the deaths as the equivalent of two jumbo jets falling out of the sky every 24 hours.

Meanwhile, manufacturers led by Siemens AG are working to almost double the capacity of the current range of turbines, which already have wingspans bigger than the largest jumbo jets.

Thus, building gas - electric hybrids using the new advanced polymer composites, which are being introduced by Boeing in its new 787 Dreamliner jumbo jet, can cut the remaining 20 percent of fuel use by another half, for a total reduction of 90 percent.

We don't live in the part of the atmosphere where radiation is dominant unless you're flight crew on a jumbo jet.

In fact, as this great video shows at the end, flying is cheaper than ever, half of what it cost thirty years ago, when they were already flying jumbo jets.

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