Sentences with phrase «shakedown cruise»

«You don't put the captain on trial for problems during the shakedown cruise,» Sherman told committee members.

The Silver Muse was built in Genoa, and did a shakedown cruise in Marseille and Barcelona before arriving in Monaco for the official ceremony.

iTunes had its first million selling tune about a year ago, really only ~ 1 year after getting a shakedown cruise over with.

March 20 brought severe storms to Florida, so my friend Alethea Kontis and I headed out for a shakedown cruise of my new storm - chasing data setup.

In fact, the Eastnor Castle Estate is the last stop for Evoque Convertible testing, as the droptop has already been tested in other parts of the world as part of its factory shakedown cruise after its appearance in concept form at the Geneva motor show earlier this year.

At first billed simply as Michael Vincent, the novice actor's «official» screen debut was the 1968 western Journey to Shiloh, though in fact he'd already had a shakedown cruise, as it were, in the Mexican film Los Bandidos (1967).

Inside NASA, the yearlong mission was being casually referred to as a «shakedown cruise,» which is a term used in the Navy to describe a trip intended to test the performance of a new ship, Williams said.

It's often a shakedown cruise here at my house.

Launched in January 2002, the Chikyu is undergoing shakedown cruises, with drilling expected to begin by 2007.