Sentences with phrase «of small aircraft»

In addition to Bell, Uber says it plans to work with a handful of small aircraft manufacturers like Aurora Flight Sciences, Pipistrel Aircraft, Embraer, and Mooney.

In June 2017, a heat wave grounded more than 40 airline [flights of small aircraft, with American Airlines reducing sales on certain flights to prevent the vehicles from being over the maximum weight permitted for safe takeoff.

OTHER HAPPY SNAPS AT Big Pineapple in Bathhurst only 8 minutes away and in front of the small aircraft at 43 Air School en route.

US Senator Charles Schumer is urging more action to be taken in assuring the safety of small aircraft.

Not exact matches

It can hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some of the quickest small passenger aircrafts.

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

If brought on board, the battery can be left in, but passengers must have the option of removing it should the airline need to downsize to a smaller aircraft that lacks overhead bin space.

This smaller, more out - of - the - way island means that there will be more room and accessibility for the aircraft on the deck, which will improve maintenance times and turnarounds.

Their aircraft would be confined to small pockets outside of these new flight areas unless they meet the criteria to fly among Amazon's drones.

For drone hobbyists and all of the soon - to - be owners of the estimated 400,000 small unmanned aircraft that will be unwrapped this holiday season, the clock is ticking.

Kelly Johnson's 14 rules about how to manage a disruptive project described how to remove a small innovative team from the politics, policies, procedures and processes a large company had built to support execution of its core business (and its military customers had developed to procure large numbers of standard aircraft.)

«The reality is that the per - kilometre cost on a small aircraft is significantly higher than a larger aircraft that operates between major cities because the costs are divided by a much higher number of passengers,» he said.

In response to a trade case filed by the American jet maker Boeing, the United States Commerce Department ruled that Bombardier's CSeries aircraft, a smaller, regional aircraft that entered service last year, had received subsidies of 219.63 percent of the plane's sales price, and it said it would begin collecting duties equivalent to that amount.

He said Airbus supporting the C Series and Embraer working with Boeing isn't necessarily negative as long as a couple of competitors remain in the marketplace that allow smaller aircraft makers to continue innovating.

That will more than triple the price of the new jet, chilling Bombardier's future sales and potentially giving Boeing more space to expand into the market for smaller aircraft.

Because of their size, agility, and ability to be quickly disassembled and reassembled, these small aircraft were considered ideal for urban operations in tight spaces.

The aircraft is designed to fly to remote forward bases to resupply soldiers and evacuate casualties — at a cost per vehicle of «less than a small helicopter,» according to a Lockheed Martin official.

A Boeing - Embraer tie - up may give the Chicago giant a foothold to sell small regional jets in China, where the state - run Commercial Aircraft Corp of China is testing locally - built passenger planes, Edward Jones» Windau said.

However, the low altitude flight profile of an attacking Tomahawk, its ability to use terrain masking for cover and concealment and its relatively small size, significantly smaller than a manned combat aircraft, make it a difficult target for even the most advanced air defense systems.

The CSeries is Bombardier's new generation of aircraft for commercial airlines, in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller models of passenger jets built by rivals Boeing and Airbus.

Virgin America, a relatively small airline with a fleet of 58 aircrafts, went public in 2014 at $ 23 a share and branded itself as a chic, low cost airline.

The USAF EC - 130H overall force is quite small, consisting of only 14 aircraft, based at Davis - Monthan AFB (DMAFB), in Tucson, Arizona and belonging to the 55th Electronic Combat Group (ECG) and its two squadrons: the 41st and 43rd Electronic Combat Squadrons (ECS).

The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

The case, which centers on a small aircraft that Bombardier plans to sell to American customers, could affect the livelihood of thousands of workers whose jobs traverse the sprawling supply chains of both aircraft manufacturers.

The move comes a day after China issued a $ 50 billion list of U.S. goods including soybeans and small aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating and potentially damaging dispute.

Dedicated Defense Company to Deliver the Next - Generation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to the United States Department of Defense and Other Federal Agencies.

He oversees the production and shipping of fresh cooked Red King Crab, charters small aircraft to fly his crab back to Anchorage, and facilitates the transfer to FedEx for overnight delivery to restaurants, upscale retailers and even consumers!

Between 2003 and 2006, Mass Audubon staff conducted extensive aerial surveys (visual counts from small aircraft) of the Sound to identify areas used by sea ducks during daylight hours.

As a result, it has become ever - more expensive to operate smaller aircraft, which has tended to encourage a reduction in the number of UK domestic flight connections.

Our region of small communities is rich in heritage and history while offering high - growth opportunities in high technology, logistics, advanced manufacturing, precision aircraft repair and research.

Federal aviation officials, battered by complaints that bureaucratic hurdles are preventing industry from realizing the economic benefits of drones, announced they are streamlining rules to expedite permits to fly small, commercial unmanned aircraft.

Along with the ships, there are a variety of smaller vehicles, vessels, and aircraft on display at the park.

One of the RAF's Hercules C - 130 transport aircraft is believed to have come under small - arms fire as it landed in the Libyan desert.

The biggest problem with this proposal is that it is congressional oversight of our public aviation system that protects all of these critical services and use of small airports and aircraft, along with routes to small and mid-sized communities.

«We're looking at how to have a collection of small, cheap, lightweight, unmanned aircraft coordinate with each other,» Weiss says.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

Boeing has experimented with them in smaller aircraft, in anticipation of using them on its 787 - 8, the current state - of - the - art electric airplane.

A new class of laser weapons 10 times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power could protect U.S. aircraft from ground - based threats

The noise, like the sound of a powerful outboard motor at full throttle, came from a small aircraft heading towards London.

With a vertical spatial resolution of 10 meters, the new system could measure small - scale wind phenomena such as wind shear and the wake turbulence created by an aircraft.

«It's a very small site, and they need accuracy of the aircraft relative to the carrier to about 30 centimeters,» says Cannon.

Beatrice «Tilly» Shilling (1909 - 1990) A prize - winning motorcycle racer and aeronautical engineer, she designed a small metal ring that fit onto the fuel line of an aircraft engine to keep the flow of fuel constant.

The FAA is, however, working with NASA and private industry on ways to manage swarms of smaller delivery and emergency responder drones — rules that might also apply to larger self - flying aircraft.

The smaller aircraft flew down the length of the runway while the pilot of the larger one pulled back the stick and climbed.

Most helicopters have a single rotor and, to stop the body of the aircraft spinning in reaction to the rotor's torque, they are also fitted with a small rotor on the tail.

«While we need to explore new sensor arrangements to apply this technology to larger and faster aircraft, we have proven the idea on the most challenging problem of keeping small, lightweight planes steady — since these are the ones that get bounced around the most,» he said.

Some of the first uses of the technology may be to make small, robotic aircraft — «super-efficient long - range drones,» Gershenfeld says, that could be used in developing countries as a way of delivering medicines to remote areas.

In addition, around the tropopause the air is close to saturation with water and a small increase of vapour from aircraft can create wide expanses of thin cirrus clouds that cause even stronger warming.

But a series of smaller, challenging projects — perhaps modeled after prize competitions for developing «disruptive» technologies, or Lockheed Martin's famed «Skunk Works» facility that pioneered futuristic spy planes and supersonic aircraft — could help build esprit de corps, he says.