Sentences with phrase «on flight instruments»

Eventually, they may become avionics technicians who work exclusively on flight instruments.

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If they can survive the shock wave and not shatter into bits, if the pilot understands the wild readings on the instruments, they soon pass into the smoothness and serenity of supersonic flight.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

The rover has an instrument that was able to measure radiation levels on the months - long flight.

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.

For example, we have to prove that an instrument has absolutely no impact on flight operations.

NASA hopes to install a duplicate of the OCO - 2 instrument (originally built as a flight spare) on the International Space Station in 2017, at a cost of roughly $ 120 million.

VERIS's six - minute flight can yield such rich information partly because of the flexibility of instrument size possible on a sounding rocket.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

«The whole time Cassini is descending, we'll be on the ground, taking data and learning about conditions on Saturn,» said Don Jennings, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-investigator for a Cassini instrument called the Composite Infrared Spectrometer.

She has worked on three NASA flight instruments, and was responsible for the ground calibration of the High Energy Transmission Gratings, one of the instruments onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

This, frequent flight opportunities, and operation that enables rapid changes of science instruments and hands - on in - flight access to the instruments, assure a unique and extensive potential - both for training young instrumentalists and for encouraging and deploying nascent technologies.

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

Through a pilot cooperative agreement notice or CAN the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Office of Education (OE) National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (Space Grant) awarded more than $ 8 million through the competitively selected Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) to 47 teams of undergraduate students to conduct hands - on flight research.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to issue a final rule by the end of 2014 to implement section 403 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 regarding the carriage of musical instruments as carry - on baggage or checked baggage on commercial passenger flights operated by U.S. air carriers.

While being the fastest car on earth is a huge goal, Bugatti hasn't forgotten to make sure the cabin will be world - class as well, with high - resolution instrument cluster, a top - flight sound system, hand - crafted cabin materials, controls with improved ease of access, and three types of seats.

Unlike many of the personal testing devices that you can find on the internet, in flight magazines or novelty promotions, these instruments have been tested by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and have proven to meet their requirements for evidential breath testers.

The images were produced by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who work in concert with others at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satellite.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

In the case of ozonesondes, the main emphasis is on the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for preparation of the instruments for flight, and on the data processing.

NASA's P - 3 research aircraft, managed at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, is outfitted with a suite of instruments to directly measure these and other properties from air drawn into the plane through inlets on the sides and wings.

In the 1980's he worked on labour rights and then served in the RAAF as an instrument fitter (working as a technician on Flight Simulators and living on Richmond RAAF base).

Participants discussed a scenario involving flight of solar occultation instruments (e.g., SAGE or Canadian ACE) on free flyers in inclined, precessing orbits to ensure continuity of measurements of stratospheric ozone and pertinent trace - gas profiles.

The flight of an OMI follow - on instrument would preserve the continuity of Aura's higher - resolution ozone data, but only at nadir — meaning that a limb capability would still be needed.

Two systematic calibrations have been compiled for the visible radiances measured by the series of AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAA operational polar weather satellites: one by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, anchored on NASA ER - 2 under - flights in the 1980s and early 1990s and covering the period 1981 - 2009, and one by the PATMOS - x project, anchored on comparisons to the MODIS instruments on the AQUA and TERRA satellites in the 2000s and covering the period 1979 - 2010 (this result also includes calibration for the near - IR channels).

Included countless repairs of complex systems that range from flight controls, landing gear, power plants, cockpit instruments, navigation, as well as being responsible for every wire on the jet.

The private pilot can then undertake advanced instruction, learn to fly on instruments and earn a commercial pilot's license upon acquiring additional hours of flight experience.

Performed maintenance on fire control, radar, flight control, instrument, communication, navigation, identification, and penetration aids avionic systems

As aircraft mechanics and service technicians gain experience, they may attend classes or otherwise choose to pursue additional certifications that grant privileges to work on specialized flight instruments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AMERICAN AIRLINES, Bethany Beach, DE Mar 2012 — Present Pilot • Successfully thwart a potential terrorist attack from one of the passengers while onboard, by recognizing the signs and alerting the authorities before landing time • Maneuver the aircraft away from harm by avoiding the path of a hurricane which descended without warning • Manage pre-flight checks of instruments and engines to ensure compliance with set aviation rules • Ascertain that all safety systems are up and running and that any glitches are taken care of • Determine best route to reach destinations based on weather reports and other concrete information from air traffic controllers • Oversee fueling duties to ensure that they are properly being carried out • Prepare aircraft for take - off and communicate status of flight to crewmembers and passengers • Monitor in - flight data and make adjustments to deal with changing weather patterns • Handle flight emergencies by ensuring passenger safety first and ensure that no panic is created onboard • Create flight plans detailing altitude, routes and amount of fuel needed • Communicate with ground staff to obtain clearance for landing • Ascertain that noise regulation is handled properly during take - off and landing

• Creating flight plans according to route and weather information derived from extensive research • Making sure that all safety systems are working optimally to reduce onboard emergencies • Performing pre-flight checks on both navigation and operating systems • Interpreting data from instruments and controls and make correlating decisions to maneuver aircrafts safely