Sentences with phrase «own airships»

Since then, she's invested in about 50 companies, including 23andMe, XCOR Aerospace, Space Adventures / Zero G, Omada Health, Icon Aircraft, Coastal Aviation Software and Airship Ventures.

Before I fought a boss or even found the all - important airship (named «Odyssey») that Mario uses to travel from kingdom to kingdom, I'd «captured» a frog and done some insane things.

He shreds Mario's hat and takes off in an airship.

After falling from Bowser's airship, Mario lands in a world ruled by hat - obsessed ghosts — a convenient twist given his immediate past.

The Airlander 10, or Martha Gwyn as it is officially known, is part - plane, part - airship, and part - helicopter.

HAV chief executive Stephen McGlennan told Sky News the airship could «operate very happily» in 80 knots of wind.

The blimp - like airship hasn't just attracted the public's attention because of its record size.

Just board the airship and press both A and B a total of 55 times and you'll jump to the puzzle screen.

Once you've gotten your airship and you've grown weary of your travels, you can actually play a sliding puzzle mini-game whenever you want.

The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crashed and suffered damage on its second test flight on Wednesday.

Urban Airship: Self - heralded as «the most globally deployed mobile - push messaging service,» Urban Airship leverages its technology to target customers based on their locations and send them push notifications of products or services of interest (such as yours).

Boyd's team is working on a hybrid airship that harks back to century - old dirigibles.

Developers of a new generation, known as hybrid airships, are hoping to change that.

But these airships have played only a marginal role in commercial aviation.

A man looks at damage to the Airlander 10 hybrid airship after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain, August 24, 2016.

The inflated flying structures are making a comeback with big players and new challengers promising to develop airships for anything from luxury travel to transporting cargo to remote parts of the world.

The prototype flew for the first time last Wednesday but it's likely be two years before airships begin to take to the skies for commercial use.

Google engineers studied balloon science from NASA, the Defence Department and the Jet Propulsion Lab to design their own airships made of plastic films similar to grocery bags.

Lockheed is the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier, but it decided to team with a commercial reseller to find customers for the slow - moving airships that have four hovercraft - like landing pads and can set down on nearly any flat surface, including sand, snow and even water.

He got married to his former wife, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, on a sandbar in the Bahamas; collectively purchased eight private jets with Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt and cofounder Larry Page; employs a yacht captain and personal shopper; and is currently working on a secret quest to build a giant airship.

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday named a private firm, Hybrid Enterprises LLC, as the exclusive sales agent for its Hybrid Airships, a new type of aircraft that company officials say could revolutionize the way oil and mining companies haul equipment to the Arctic and other remote areas without roads.

The cluster's areas of focus run the gamut from small spacecraft and airships to intelligence gathering and surveillance to innovative energy technologies to unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The initial version of the airship, filled mostly with helium, would carry 20 tons of cargo, but could easily be scaled to roughly the size of a soccer field with 500 tons of capacity, said Lockheed's Robert Boyd, who began working on airships in 1991.

«This significantly reduces the number of man hours required for efficient operations of the airship.»

Developed in the company's secretive Skunk Works division, SPIDER (Self - Propelled Instrument for Damage Evaluation and Repair) solves a big challenge faced by the airship industry: pinholes.

Note — August Capital is an investor in Gigwalk, Urban Airship and Turo.

One week before the successful flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the New York Times had this to say about a rival plane builder: «We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments.

The airship was invented here, in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance.

These days, those airships are much safer, and we are seeing a revival, with new, high - tech versions being built, still here in Friedrichshafen, 15 minutes driving from Kressbronn.

The society has seen fit to preserve, in framed photographs and monographs, certain events in the past of Woodson County — such as the birth of Buster Keaton in 1895 and the visit of President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879 and the arrival in the county of Thurlow Lieurance, the composer of the song Falling Leaves, in 1885 and, most impressive of all perhaps, the sighting on the night of April 19, 1897 by Captain Alexander Hamilton of a brightly lighted, reddish airship with a cigar - shaped cabin 300 feet long.

@Enemy airships, Appreciate your opinion too mate but when you point to Vieira, Petit, Pires, Anelka, etc as French players who have acheived at the club from relative obscurity there are a number of things to consider such as the fact that few of these players done more than 4 seasons at the club where pool, utd and chels were buying quality that have remained and driven their clubs forward.....

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Getting a New Business off the Ground Aeronautics engineer Françoise Heilmann - Pascal is setting up an «environmental airship tourism» company that will take people aboard zeppelins.

But the plan fell through in November 2012 when the zeppelin company folded its U.S. operations and took the airship back to Germany.

Hoffman, a former editor in chief of Discover, pays tribute to the long - overlooked Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos - Dumont, who piloted the world's first personal airship.

But they inhabit a post-carbon super-Venice of canals, water taxis and airships moored to 300 - story skyscrapers and verdant vertical farms.

Set for a beta release later this year, it's a multiplayer game in which players build airships to explore mysterious floating islands.

Before long, the budding entrepreneurs had formed Ohio Airships.

The full - scale airship would dwarf a military cargo plane.

A safer generation of airships, otherwise known as dirigibles, is trying to usher in a low - carbon future for air cargo

Michael Le Page writes that airships would depend on hydrogen, because «helium is derived from natural gas».

Whereas airships harnessed hydrogen's buoyancy, the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell, an SUV, uses it to make electricity.

In 1925, scientists chased an eclipse with an airship; in 1973, they did so at supersonic speed in a Concorde.

In 1925 an American airship, the Shenandoah, broke up in midair after it was caught in a storm.

The hydrogen that most airships used as the lifting gas meant that several airships burst into flames, including the British - built R101, which crashed on its first flight in 1930.

Painter and writer Stephen Petroff ponders Maine's extinct songbirds, journalist Howard Mansfield recounts the checkered career of early airship pilot Alberto Santos - Dumont, and filmmaker Werner Herzog fights biting winds as he trudges across the German countryside to visit a dying friend.

But once established on the frontiers, experts say their versatility, cost and fuel advantages should allow airships to penetrate mature freight markets like the United States.

«But in a fully mature hybrid market, airships should replace the rest of the fixed - wing cargo fleet.»

Today's airships carry helium.

While sanguine about airship's ultimate prospects, University of Manitoba's Prentice cautioned that a fair amount of growing lies ahead of the industry.