Sentences with phrase «technology used on airplanes»

Although there have been significant advances in the technology used on airplanes and helicopters, mechanical failure, as well as human error, continue to cause aviation accidents.

Not exact matches

The startup is working on technology that would use magnetic levitation in low - pressure tubes to transport people and goods at airplane - like speeds.

We live in a smaller home in wash park so not much wireless is going on but we have strictly used airplane mode for years on all of our technology.

This technology might find use as an active camouflage fabric that can change its reflectance as desired or as a mechanism for making «riblets» that improve the aerodynamic drag characteristics of airplane wings [see box on opposite page].

Just make sure your smartphone is on airplane mode and never check your notifications while you're in bed (ideally, avoid the habit of using any technology in your bedroom).

As they've done elsewhere in the tropics, Asner and his team used a laser - based technology known as «light detection and ranging,» or LiDAR, mounted on CAO's airplane to measure the density of carbon in nearly 30 percent of Sabah's forests.