Sentences with phrase «out of a parachute»

My mum was so resourceful and always well dressed at such an austere time; she even made herself cami - knickers out of parachute silk!

Those leather crop tops with the spaghetti straps remind me of something I used to wear back in the 90s, except of course instead of leather it was made out of a parachute fluro type material.

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I say yes — you could also get more payload from an aircraft if you get rid of the landing gear and the flaps, and just parachuted out when you got to your destination — but that would be crazy, and you would sell zero aircraft.

Novelty seeking — getting bored easily and throwing yourself into new pursuits or activities — is often linked to gambling, drug abuse, attention deficit disorder, and leaping out of perfectly good airplanes without a parachute.

«I am a jump out of the plane, assemble the parachute on the way down type of person.

Whether the CEO climbs rungs of the corporate ladder or whether a celebrity CEO is parachuted in, they will have successfully out - competed other confident and capable people for the job.

Before they parachuted their cars out of airplanes and did jobs for the military across the globe, the characters of the «Fast and Furious» franchise were just street racers looking for a rush.

The GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, sometimes grimly called the «Mother of All Bombs» because of its acronym, was loaded onto a pallet, flown in a C - 130 cargo plane, then dragged out the back of the plane — pallet included — by a parachute.

Or was it maybe even jumping out of a plane with only your parachute saving you from a free - fall?

Rich Dad Coaching's site offers that «Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute» (probably an even worse idea).

Running any business without cyber protection is like jumping out of a plane without a parachute.»

So even when we strap on a parachute to go skydiving, it's because we think we're jumping out of a treehouse.

Although strong bipartisan support has been voiced for the JOBS Act amendments, Aguilar's negative sentiment echoes that of Senator Carl Levin (D - MI) who said, «It's as if the SEC is jumping out of an airplane today, and then proposing to check the safety of its parachute on the way down.»

«Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

My Rich Dad said, «Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

Now take humans out of the equation and parachute in a purely natural factor, such as a predator.

For real «faith» photos, he should have taken photos of people jumping out of airplanes without parachutes.

I guess a skydiver jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is foolish, not an idiot.

Second of all, the faithful are not in any better position, because they choose to believe in God, which is akin to picking a parachute out of a sea of backpacks (other religions) and without checking decide that it'll save them.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

May be two bi planes should have a duel above the Emirates to decide the issue May be Arsene can parachute out of a plane and if he lands in the centre circle he gets to keep his job Any way Arsenal will tell us «soon» what his plans are.

Average his games out and they'd seem mediocre, in the same way that a man who jumps out of a plane without a parachute has, on average, a fairly sedentary 24 hours.

In 1977, more than 30 years after he parachuted behind enemy lines to aid the French resistance (he was later wounded and captured), he was feted at a Frenchman's party as the crazy American who dropped out of the air with a fishing rod tied to his leg.

Although there are parachute payments and support available for relegated teams, nothing can be done to remedy damaged egos and the loss of players who don't want to slog it out for a season in a lower league.

Oh, I know the whole «free will» stuff and all, but then again, if jumping out of an airplane with a parachute isn't an affront to God, why should giving birth in a hospital be?

And if he wanted us to die when we jump out of those planes, he wouldn't have let us invent parachute.

A new Cochrane Review concludes that all countries should consider allowing people to jump out of planes without parachutes.

Suppose that the folks at the Cochrane Review searched the scientific literature for randomized controlled trials that compared jumping out of plane with and without a parachute.

She was pretty sick, in and out of ER several times, couldn't eat or sleep without drugs that weren't nursing friendly ect, and husband was packing parachutes of detonating explosives, not exaclty the someone you want frazzled and sleep deprived so the baby generally slept with me.

Half the fun of my early days of blogging in Cambodia was taking the piss out of travel journalists parachuting in for the weekend, who filed the same food story about spiders and then retreated to cooler climes.

As an example of why this argument shouldn't dissuade moms from seeking help, there are NO empirical studies saying that jumping out of an airplane without a parachute can be harmful to your health.

The board was accused of handing its executive director a lucrative severance package at the beginning of the year — a so - called Golden Parachute should he be pushed out by the new Democratic - controlled leadership team.

Less of the parachuting more of real people coming into politics, less America and more f*cking British politics, less leaders thinking we can make money out of backing the USA.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the Erie County Water Authority continues to face criticism following the revelation that Executive Director Earl Jann has a golden parachute agreement where he would receive between $ 300,000 and $ 400,000 if he is forced out of his role, the Erie County Legislature's Government Affairs Committee requested representatives from the authority to show up to Thursday's 11 a.m. meeting.

Rumours of sudden peerages and parachuted favourites have, pleasingly, turned out to be untrue.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- As the Erie County Water Authority continues to face criticism following the revelation that Executive Director Earl Jann has a golden parachute agreement where he would receive between $ 300,000 and $ 400,000 if he is forced out of his role, the Erie County Legislature's...

Parachuting candidates in from out of the area like last time doesn't give the impression that the city is being taken seriously.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Following a firestorm of controversy surrounding reports that a new contract for Erie County Water Authority Executive Director Earl Jann includes a «golden parachute» that would pay him more than $ 300 thousand in the event he is forced out for political reasons, authority commissioners were before the Erie County Legislature's Government Affairs Committee Thursday.

At many levels of government, election results propel political appointees out of office without golden parachutes.

I wasn't aware of the Golden Parachute as I don't think anyone was because as we point out in our report, the Erie County Water Authority is one of the entities that does not post meeting agendas,» coalition president Paul Wolf said.

This is the same stuff that parachutes are made out of so if it's strong enough for a skydiver, you can bet it's strong enough for you.

Falling Out of a Plane In 1942 a Soviet pilot named I. M. Chisov plunged 22,000 feet without a parachute after bailing out of his Ilyushin 4 bombOut of a Plane In 1942 a Soviet pilot named I. M. Chisov plunged 22,000 feet without a parachute after bailing out of his Ilyushin 4 bombout of his Ilyushin 4 bomber.

At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, check out a real Apollo - era Saturn V test rocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moon rock.

Scott Barthelmy said the following: Before launch the entire flight train, consisting of the fan-folded balloon, a «flight ladder» of steel cables, and a parachute and its shroud lines, is laid out on heavy - duty tarps between two specialized launch vehicles, the spool truck and the launch truck.

«We jumped out of the airplane and had to build a parachute on the way down,» he says.

Steve: It's kind of like jumping out of an airplane and hoping somebody hands you a parachute before you hit the ground.

I had the feeling of jumping out of an aeroplane and, although there was a parachute on my back, I did not have a clue how to use it, and did not even know if it would open.

It plowed through the Martian atmosphere, popped out a parachute and then vaulted to the surface in a cocoon of airbags.

In slow motion - in video originally shot at a thousand frames per second but played back here at 30 frames per second - we see the initial suspension lines deploying out of the pack and taking the parachute backwards where it will ultimately inflate in nearly half a second.

On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens entry probe became the first spacecraft to land on a planetary surface in the outer solar system, carrying out various physical and chemical measurements of Titan's atmosphere and transmitting high - resolution images as it descended by parachute.