Sentences with phrase «running test flights»

Avinor also wants to be running test flights on key routes as early as 2025.

The airline's next step is to run a test flight using fuel from jatropha oil in the latter half of this year (see also our previous post on jatropha for biofuels).

Not exact matches

Hybrid Air Vehicles runs a robust set of procedures for flight test activities and investigation of issues.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

During its first free flight test at night, Morpheus (a Human Exploration and Operations MD project) tests NASA's ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, which are green propellants.

That's why a group of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center — the «bug team» — recently ran several flight tests of coatings that may one day reduce the amount of bug contamination on the wings of commercial aircraft.

He runs these calculations not once, but hundreds of times to arrive at the best possible solution and to test the integrity of the new design in likely flight conditions.

# 10: It's getting real: testing flight hardware with mission control code 18 December 2017 With the flight models of the CHEOPS spacecraft and telescope maturing, crucial tests can now be run with real hardware in place of simulations.

Bogie is a WWII bomber pilot who goes from running a flight school to testing a top secret new fighter jet.

In the early days of flight, airmail pilots conducted dry runs or «pathfinder» flights to test the flying schedule, survey landing strips and facilities at intermediate airfields, and acquaint themselves with the full length of the route.

We've just heard via Green Car Congress that Air New Zealand, in conjunction with Boeing and UOP, have just set a date for their first test - flight running on 50 % biofuel produced from non-food sources.

The aircraft is approximately 70 % complete, and the completion date is approximately 6 - 12 months, at which point it will start the ground run tests before test flights.

Conducted system runs using scenarios that provided information regarding anticipated flight tests

Evaluated and ran software tools that captured data from pre-mission and post-mission flight tests