Sentences with phrase «powered by aircraft»

Nobody got killed and the boats, most of them powered by aircraft engines, flew so low that Bill Sterett (above) won with his Chryslers

Not exact matches

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

Only aircraft carrier groups and the ability to transport an army by sea and air to any locale in the world is power projection.

All recent Boeing 737s are powered by engines from CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric and France's Safran Aircraft Engines.

With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power — Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two.

«With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power — Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two,» SpaceX tweeted on Tuesday night.

India should replace its dependence on Iranian oil through cooperation with America in nuclear - power production and cease its dependency on Russian airframe technology by buying advanced American military aircraft.

The company can cease supplying spare parts, weapons, aircraft, power plant equipment or other high - tech production which can not be easily replaced by another source.

Following his determination to sustain the air power domination by Nigerian Airforce fighter aircraft in the war against terrorism, the new Chief f Air staff, AVM Sadique Abubakar during the week embarked on an operational visit to its offensive bases.

Just as the US military projects power by sending an aircraft carrier towards North Korea every now and again, News International reminds its rivals that it sells one in three of the newspapers bought in Britain this morning by being seen, regularly, with the prime minister of the day and his senior Ministers.

The FAA has already approved at least one biofuel — ethanol — as an alternative fuel for two types of aircraft and engines, including the Piper Pawnee powered by Lycoming IO - 540 engines.

He developed practical models which will help to predict the consequences for nuclear power plants of fires caused by aircraft impacts.

A modern nuclear power plant, for example, must withstand fires caused by aircraft crashing into it.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

The first powered, fixed - wing aircraft ever to fly was an uncontrolled steam - powered drone built by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley.

Several other companies, including Joby Aviation and Silicon Valley start - ups Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk — the latter two backed by Google co-founder Larry Page — are racing to develop electric - powered VTOL aircraft that could help make Elevate a reality.

In the SNOWIE project, an aircraft supported by the Idaho Power Company released the silver iodide, while the UW King Air took measurements to monitor the silver iodide's impact.

Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California have developed and flown an aircraft that needs no fuel: It is powered entirely by laser light beamed from the ground.

The initial thought was to develop a 20 - foot wingspan (6.1 meters) aircraft powered by hybrid diesel / electric engines, but the team started with smaller versions for testing, built by rapid prototyping.

The Zephyr is a carbon - fiber aircraft weighing 66 pounds and with a wingspan of about 59 feet that by day flies on solar power generated by amorphous silicon arrays that cover its wings; it is powered at night by lithium - sulfur batteries recharged during the day using solar power.

The previous unmanned endurance record was set in 2001 by a jet - powered U.S. Air Force Global Hawk surveillance aircraft, which flew for more than 30 hours.

The Coast Guard found that «something» when the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offered to lend the Polar Star crew three small, battery - powered unmanned aircraft that could be launched by hand as well as spare parts, ground - control equipment and long - range antennas.

At Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Viktor Petrenko has developed a novel aircraft de-icing heater that rids surfaces of ice faster while using just 1 per cent of the power consumed by existing systems.

Nuclear reactors are routinely used by the U.S. Navy to power its aircraft carriers and submarines.

World's first manned airplane powered by hydrogen takes flight U.S. aircraft maker Boeing announced this week that it had completed the world's first manned flights in an airplane powered by pollution - free hydrogen.

One potential problem for a plane powered by a ground - based laser is an interruption of the beam by another aircraft or its attenuation by clouds.

Soon thereafter the first alcohol - powered aircraft, the EMB 202 Ipanema crop duster, was introduced by Brazil's Indústria Aeronáutica Neiva, a subsidiary of Embraer SA.

Repeated aircraft sampling in the power plant plume was guided by a constant - altitude Mylar balloon (filled with helium and air) that was released near the power plant at sunset.

Throw in several helicopters and C - 130 aircraft rented by the film - makers and an explosion at London's famed Battersea power station that actually made several nervous local residents phone the authorities believing that the station was under terrorist attack; and it seems as if The Dark Knight is going to kick some serious butt when it opens in U.S. cinemas on 18 July...

In the News - Gustave Whitehead is being credited as having the FIRST successful powered flight in history (Bridgeport ~ CT ~ on August 14 ~ 1901) ~ two years before the Wright Brothers ~ by Jane's All the World's Aircraft.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

If you will need to pump, we recommend bringing a battery - operated or manual breast pump, since the availability of inflight seat power varies by aircraft fleet.

Powered by a 16 - valve, four - cylinder, midmounted engine, Intrepid incorporates aerodynamic styling readily evident in its aircraft - canopy - styled top and flush - mounted glass.

Powered by a 65hp Continental 4 - cylinder aircraft engine with a McCauley prop.

WHEN I WAS five Mom and Dad rented a house in the Napa Valley, and Dad befriended a man called Frenchie Meyers who wore suspenders and owned a junkyard nearby — fifty acres covered in thirty - foot heaps of smashed cars, flattired trailers full of old glass doorknobs, two aircraft hangars (one stuffed full of forklifts, tractors, and power tools and guarded by Sam, a glass - blue - eyed wolf dog, the other converted into a machine shop and guarded by an anvil of a bulldog named Jezebel).

In the 1950s, regional airlines began by flying small, propeller - powered aircraft on short - range flights within the US.

«All three flights on this route will be operated by our brand new Boeing 787 - 9 aircraft, giving our customers the most optimal Virgin Atlantic experience, including on - board Wi - Fi and power at every seat.

Gardens that fly, aircraft powered by the sun, cities that change and meld like drifting clouds, gravity as a «physical psycho - social relationship.»

Named a J.D. Power 2011 Customer Service Champion, WestJet offers increased legroom, leather seats and live seatback television provided by Bell TV on its modern fleet of 97 Boeing Next - Generation 737 aircraft.

Is it not also a bitter irony that this power should be struck to the heart of its security and self - confidence by an action that was utterly improbable according to every logic of risk, when suicide terrorists succeeded in turning commercial passenger aircraft into rockets, which destroyed symbols of American world power?

The Environmentally Friendly Inter-City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA - FC) project will receive â «¬ 2.9 million (US$ 3.9 million) in funding from the European Union as part of the aeronautics and space priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

A European research project, led by Turin Polytechnic University, is designing a fuel - cell powered, manned inter-city aircraft.

Finally, Prof. Chilingar appeared to attack global heating by concluding that direct heating of the air by human activity (aircraft air friction, power plant thermal plumes, etc.) couldn't possibly cause the observed heating — which every serious climate scientist (Prof. Chilingar is a petroleum scientist) would agree with completely.

Although they had to visually navigate the aircraft by flying at 300 feet and following power lines, the trip was a success and their subsequent report led to increased funding for members of Alberta's remote communities.

These perils include lightning strikes to the condo or property, wind or hail damage, explosion damage, power surges, the weight of snow, ice, or sleet that causes roof damage, theft, vandalism, fire, damage by vehicles, damage by aircraft, riot or civil disobedience, smoke damage, and falling objects.

The covered perils include fire, lightning, civil commotion, explosion, hail, windstorm, smoke, damage caused by aircraft or vehicles, vandalism, weight of ice or snow, falling objects, theft, flood due to compromised plumbing, and power surge.

By operating smaller aircraft short distances, Knapp says Zunum can overcome those obstacles that have traditionally impeded electric - powered flights.

TOKYO (The Japan News / ANN)- CV - 22 Osprey transport aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force arrived at Yokota Air Base on Thursday, with an eye to increasing the deterrent power of the Japan-U.S. alliance against North Korea.

The glider is an aircraft piloted without a power source, as it is helped by the wind.