Sentences with phrase «than flight crew»

Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight — and the first with passengers other than flight crew.

Not exact matches

The flights reportedly cost more than usual due to the fact that she flew on jets located at the Joint Base Andrews, which sometimes required the crew to fly without passengers to pick up the First Lady or return to the base.

They provide more accurate targeting than crewed armed flights and sea - based weaponry, although they are certainly not perfect.

A bit more than hundred years ago, before the plane was invented, there was simply no such job as pilot, flight attendant or ground crew.

The crisis was exacerbated by the poaching of crew by other airlines, forcing the Dublin - based carrier to cancel more than 20,000 flights and propose a new pay deal in order to maintain other services.

The cancellation of an international flight can make logistical problems snowball into disruptions lasting more than a day because both aircraft and crews are out of position.

At Tokyo's Narita airport, passenger Brett LaBare endured a delay of more than five hours until his flight to LAX was eventually canceled because the crew exceeded their safety - related working hours limit.

The crew capsule will require some upgrades for the deep - space flight, but Musk said those would be limited mainly to a communications system built for much longer distances, rather than the relatively short trips to the space station.

Veteran astronaut Andy Thomas, a crew member on this year's inaugural flight of the reengineered space shuttle, says that stars from dry, unpolluted earthly locations look as good as or better than they do through the shuttle's glass view port.

The comparison for a manned flight is more complicated, since a crew would need much more food and air for the six - month journey to Phobos than for the three - day trip to our moon.

Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the ISS and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five.

The Commercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flights occur.

Though the maiden launch of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is still, at the earliest, more than two years away, work on the large rocket's Mobile Launcher (ML) moves forward in support of the first flight of the agency's next crew - rated launch vehicle.

Passengers on a Sunday AirAsia flight to Bali — which was forced to turn back to Australia following an apparent loss of cabin pressure — have criticized its flight crew for allegedly screaming when the plane plunged more than 20,000 feet.

good crew Pros: food was good and overall good economy class flight Cons: distance between rows seems shorter than other airlines such as Emirates

The leg room is a lot more than the rest of the economy cabin, except seats A, B, C of the same rows, which face a folding flight crew seat and have over 7 feet of seat pitch or more than 6 feet of leg room.

Attention from the flight crew was tremendous and the seat was more comfortable than I thought it would be.

The right - hand - side of the plane also has fewer washrooms and the plane design prevents you from crossing to the other aisle anywhere other than the very back of the plane - especially if flight crew is serving anything, prepare to wait an eternity for the washroom.

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The Canadian Aviation Regulations, authorized under the Aeronautics Act, define a UAV as a «power driven aircraft, other than a model aircraft, that is operated without a flight crew member on board.»

Engaging in aerial flights (including parachuting and skydiving) other than as a fare paying passenger or crew on a licensed passenger - carrying commercial aircraft (being a multi-engined aircraft) operating on a regular scheduled route; or

Boeing's first crewed flight to the International Space Station may last a lot longer than originally planned — and the mission may have an extra crew member along for the ride, too.

With an experience that spans more than 6 years of being a flight attendant and working with different companies, being a cabin crew member comes easy for me.

However, the average pilot works more than 100 hours a month counting ground duties such as filing flight plans, working on reports, briefing crews and attending training classes.