Sentences with phrase «plane flights using»

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Buckman also sees big advances already being implemented in load balancing, using new mathematical algorithms to figure out optimal distributions of passenger and cargo weight within the plane for a better flight trim and therefore a more efficient flight.

To promote Poland's LOT Airlines over Christmas, Facebook used real - time flight - tracking data, Google Maps and its own ad - scheduling software so that when a LOT plane passed over a particular city, users in that location would see a sponsored post reminding them to share a kiss under the mistletoe.

So although scientists have an estimate of the plane's flight path via its satellite data, they still have to trace any remains they find using the data they have on ocean currents and wind.

Kokonis expects the airline will eventually use the planes to add flight frequencies targeting corporate and government travellers on the lucrative eastern triangle of Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

Airbus is using Stratasys» production - grade printers to print flight parts for its new A350 XWB airplane; the first one of these planes delivered in December 2014 had more than 1,000 3D - printed parts installed in it.

Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using their onboard flight computers and the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years.

A manager then came aboard the plane, using a computer to select four people to be taken off the flight.

Its four - plane fleet of aircraft used on international flights is surprisingly new — acquired in 2008.

The word «rogue» entered the lexicon of Alberta politics after Auditor General Merwan Saher reviewed Alison Redford's use of government aircraft and found that somebody booked «false passengers» onto government flights in order to block seats and then unbooked them so that Ms Redford and her entourage could have the plane all to themselves.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

All of those billions, all of those millions of hours, spent on projects fueled by geniuses beyond compare, and we're still stuck using long plane flights that discourage our older heroes from traveling.

Using car seats on planes is often fraught with misinformation, flight crews unclear on the rules, and a lack of consistency -LSB-...]

On my plane flight from Israel to the US a few months ago, the Chassidic woman from Montreal next to me was (very discretely) nursing her 7 mos old without even using a cover, while the secular Israeli the seat behind was using one of those big apron things.

Then, once on the plane, since it is all cloth there were no annoying buckles digging into me when sitting down so I could wear it the full flight and even use it as a cover while breastfeeding (with strangers sitting only inches away from me on either side).

Passengers are permitted to bring these items on planes in reasonable amounts — what you would need for use during the flight.

A pilot was removed from a United Airlines flight Saturday after she used the plane's intercom system to go on a bizarre rant ranging from her divorce to thoughts on Trump and Hillary Clinton.

From 2009, the government will levy the duty not on individual passengers but on flights, to encourager more efficient use of planes.

PoSSUM plans to use XCOR Aerospace's suborbital rocket plane Lynx; two people fit in its flight pod.

But the transmitter pinged an hourly signal to an Inmarsat satellite and those radio pulses were used to work out a rough flight path for the missing plane.

This is akin to early planes, which used gyroscopes to automatically adjust wing shapes to help stabilisation in flight.

A space scientist at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC International Imaging, has been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve the chances of locating ships and planes, such as the missing Malaysian flight MH370, lost at sea.

The researchers tested its gecko - inspired grabber using pressurised air at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and in the temporary weightlessness of a parabolic plane flight.

Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole - to - pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year.

So we wan na essentially use that you know, traffic policer officer or that you know, flight tower attendant that's telling the planes which direction to go.

The globe trotter will probably get loads of use out of a sleeping mask on those long air plane flights, and for those who travel internationally often, they will love the compact efficiency of this adapter!

Use the Touch Screen to control your plane, lock - on to various enemies or plan your flight path.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

A powerful look inside the world of alcoholism, «Flight» uses the events before and after the aforementioned plane mishap to take the viewer on the rollercoaster ride that is Whip Whitaker's life.

Most Americans know the story well, as the plane never met its intended destination, while the passengers on board were able to contact their loved ones as the flight was en route, informed that three other planes had been used as weapons of mass suicide, two of them hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and a third striking the Pentagon.

An empty jar similar to a freckle ointment which Earhart used, a zipper from a flight jacket, a woman's mirror, and fragments from a plane, have also been unearthed.

Cisco is developing tablets to be used by Inventory Control, Manufacturing, Factories, and even air plane navigation to carry flight information.

Many airlines have replaced the manuals that pilots originally used in the cockpit with tablet computers, the same devices that passengers aboard those same planes are not allowed to use for the entire flight, rather having their devices relegated to key times in travel.

If traveling by plane and the bird's usual drinking water is not available, use high - quality bottled water or filtered water, and avoid any tap water before, during or after the flight.

First, if you really want a carry - on with you so you can jet off the plane to a meeting or catch a train, use one of the co-branded United cards to book your flight.

The Turkish Airlines frequent flyer program is called Miles & Smiles, and since they are a member of Star Alliance, their miles can be used for flights on their own planes and those of any other Star Alliance members as well.

Airline tickets are the most obvious, and there are plenty of ways to use cards for plane tickets, either by accumulating frequent - flyer miles on a card or using a card that has travel benefits and reimburses you for flights.

In a very Be Your Own Elite move, these flights would be a great use of a traded RPU / GPU to put you to the front of the plane on a United p.s. route.

Last year, All Nippon Airlines asked passengers to use the lavatories before they board flights so as to reduce the overall weight of the plane, which would ultimately be better for the environment as it would mean less fuel usage.

During a flight, the air inside the plane tends to have a humidity level lower than 20 percent, as opposed to the 30 to 65 percent we're used to in typical indoor environments.

I'll be on a flight of their's in just a few hours — so I can't say I don't enjoy using their planes for my travel.

The planes will not have in - flight entertainment, but they will include USB power ports at each seat so you can use your own devices.

At an aviation conference in Brisbane last week, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said that the airline is considering using its new planes on longhaul flights that could rival the world's longest.

Use KAYAK's flight search to browse many plane tickets sites at once and quickly find cheap tickets for both one way and multi city flights.

Annual credit can be used to offset flight - related expenses such as plane tickets, checked bags, upgrades, and in - flight purchases.

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia president director Pahala Mansury said extra flights have been added for flights from Surabaya and Lombok and bigger planes are used to carry more passengers.

All flights will use Airbus A330 - 300 planes, each of which has a total capacity of 24 business seats and 263 economy seats.

I explained earlier that I can still see myself using my United miles on international business class flights on United - operated planes.

Five kilometres up the coast from Airlie Beach is the smaller Whitsunday Airport - a light plane airport mainly used for island connections and scenic adventure flights.

BA Avios are great (and I mean really great) for use on short flights within North America on American Airlines operated planes.

The beauty of most all these airline miles programs is that you don't have to use them for flights on only their planes.