Sentences with phrase «on jet engine»

The current Infiniti signature grille appears to be gone, replaced with a deep sulking one with a finely finned intake somewhat reminiscent of the front turbine on a jet engine.

Although 100,000 flights were cancelled earlier this year following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, little is known about the effects of ash on jet engines.

This fall, Apple's giving you a choice: get a seat on the best piston airliner ever, or take a chance on jet engines.»

Not exact matches

A Southwest Airlines jet sits on the runway at Philadelphia International Airport after it was forced to land with an engine failure, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2018.

Investigators believe cracks caused a fan blade on a Southwest Airlines jet to shear off last month, starting an engine breakup that left one passenger dead after debris hit the plane.

AR can help professionals work on car (or jet) engines, tell construction workers what's concealed within walls, and give people in warehouses a better view of their inventory, among many other uses.

Some major customers of Boeing's popular 737 jets said they were inspecting engines of the type that blew apart mid-air on a fatal Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday.

The engine of a SkyWest passenger jet caught fire moments after the aircraft landed at Denver International Airport on Sunday, but all 63 people aboard exited the plane safely, an airline spokeswoman said.

The engine of a SkyWest passenger jet caught fire moments after the aircraft landed at Denver International Airport on Sunday.

Cowen research downgraded United Technologies to market perform from outperform on Wednesday, citing the jet - engine maker's «hefty» deal price for Rockwell Collins and increased debt load following the proposed deal.

In short, as harrowing as these incidents are, the passenger jets we fly on are sturdy enough to survive literally having an engine blow up.

Some on board immediately thought back to just two weeks ago when a jet engine blew apart and broke a window, leading to a woman being partially sucked out and killed aboard...

For the first time in living memory, GE is on the road to becoming a coherent whole, built around industrial infrastructure businesses including power generation, locomotives, jet engines, and oil and gas production equipment.

In construction, jet engines or automotive supply, for example, loyalty depends largely on relationships and project results.

Southwest Airlines Co. is stepping up inspections on its jet fleet after investigators said they discovered evidence of metal fatigue on an engine that exploded Tuesday, sending shrapnel into the plane and killing a passenger seated near a window.

Southwest has been under intense scrutiny since April 17, when a fan blade on the Boeing 737's CFM56 jet engine broke apart mid-flight, shattering a window and nearly sucking a woman out of the plane.

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

Those educated «scientists» that the religious dunces seem to hate (due to all those pesky facts they keep spouting), are the people that gave us, the steam engine that started the industrial revolution; they gave us vaccines to cure disease and electricity so we have light where there was once darkness and they invented the jet engine so that the flat Earthers can fly to see their loved ones on those religious holidays that are so important to them... Not to mention they invented computers and the Internet that allows the right wing Bible thumpers to post their uneducated, mindless, factless opinion on this Web Site.

We heard these jet engines coming, and all of sudden, we saw the plane coming across the sky there and landing on the runway.

Drop a dab of this yellow dynamite on your naked tongue, and in less than two seconds you'll feel the heat in your sinuses like the afterburner from a jet engine.

The jet - engine roar of the crowd was juxtaposed with the image of Pride stoically standing on second — deaf, literally, to the cacophony.

The flight to New York was only an hour each way (and luckily the hum of the jet engine lulled him to sleep on both flights!)

On everything from financial services and pharmaceuticals to jet engines, music and computer games.

THE low - frequency rumble of a violent volcanic explosion sounds just like the roar of a jet engine, a similarity which might tells us what's going on within the fiery mountains.

There are more movies to watch on board than there used to be, but the basic idea — a metal tube attached to jet engines that burn modified petroleum, carrying a lot of people at around 600 mph — is much the same as it has been for all planes since then.

The virtual jet relies on several tricks to reshape the shock waves and reduce the intensity of the boom: a needle nose, narrow fuselage, swept - back wings, aerodynamic engine coverings placed above the wings to shield engine noise, and a widely spaced V - shaped tail.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) was formed to include representatives of environmental, farm and social groups as well as experts from companies that make aircraft and jet engines.

Boeing has tested two such «vegetable - based biofuels» with this antifreezing property in the General Electric jet engines used on many of its 747 aircraft, Daggett says.

The efficiency gains from using ultrahigh temperature materials in gas turbines and jet engines could have a real impact on CO2 emissions and global warming.»

Mother ship Eve's jet engines will run on kerosene initially but are also capable of running on butanol, a biofuel that can be made from algae.

Rather than use rocket engines, which have to lug their own oxygen, Wurst wants to use a ramjet, a sort of super jet engine commonly used on planes that travel three or more times the speed of sound.

It turns out that blazars are powered surprisingly like the exhausts of jet engines, albeit on a cosmic scale, says astronomer and lead author Alan Marscher of Boston University.

Jet engines may be mounted on the top of the aircraft.

Applications from microelectronics to high - temperature jet engine components rely on tailoring of crystallographic texture to achieve desired performance characteristics.

Camci, who has worked on the method since 1989 with Steve Hippensteele of NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, says that liquid crystals have several advantages: «The crystals are available as sheets of Mylar (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic or in liquid form, so that covering an entire piece of equipment, such a s a turbine blade or a jet engine duct, is fairly simple, particularly compared to applying thermocouples.

The ambitious design is based on a novel hybrid jet — rocket engine concept that just may provide the necessary boost.

The fundamental problem, he says, is that conventional jets become impractical at velocities exceeding about Mach 2.7 (2.7 times the speed of sound); the inflowing air slows rapidly on entering the engine and generates more heat than most available materials can withstand.

The passengers on board a 1982 British Airways flight from London to Auckland, New Zealand, know that volcanic ash and jet engines are a dangerous mix.

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One of those genes might appear nonessential on its own — like a jet engine that could be shut down without causing the plane to crash — but if its buddy was also taken away, the cell would die.

The validation flight was conducted using a 40:60 mix of Rentech's synthetic jet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircrajet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraJet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraft.

Your body doesn't so much «switch» to anaerobic but instead turns on the anaerobic system, in the same sense that fighter jet pilots don't «switch» to the afterburners to go supersonic but rather use them in addition to current engine power.

Sullenberger was the pilot who, in 2009, miraculously landed a passenger jet in New York's Hudson River after the engines were disabled by a flock of geese on take - off.

DONNIE DARKO Newcomer Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, a tonal cross between Ang Lee and David Lynch, begins, for all intents and purposes, with a jet engine falling out of the sky and landing on the white - picket Darko residence, where the troubled title teenager lives.

Or perhaps I should say Artifact, in reference to the jet engine that comes tumbling out of the sky on the night of Oct. 2, 1988, crashing into the bedroom of our teenage hero, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal).

We all know that when a flock of starlings must have mistaken a jet aircraft for a school of fish and sacrificed their lives by invading its engines, they could have brought down human beings as though on a suicide mission.

In our modem world, jet engines are diagnosed for problems in midflight by on - board computers, and professional coaches review videoclips of specific plays by keying in «pass play» or «punt.»

These are enormously impressive wheels on the R - Line model, looking very much like the front fan of a jet engine.

There's impressive punch off the line and when you pin the throttle from low speeds, accompanied by a cool, faint, high - pitched whine that sounds like modulating jet engines on the final approach.

Available only as a 3 - door and with the frugal 1.4 8v 77hp petrol engine, the Punto Jet Black is an attempt to appeal on a younger audience, offering lots of kit as well.