Sentences with phrase «time in a helicopter»

Actually, it was my first time in a helicopter period!

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If you're a Black Hawk [helicopter] pilot or a tank commander, spend some time on the flight line or in the motor pool with the maintainers and the wrench - turners.

Carter said if there was one thing he could change about his time in office it would be the failed mission to rescue the hostages from Iran, which he said could have been successful if he had one more helicopter.

In 2009 he began a two - and - a-half year training course to become a fully operational, full - time Army Air Corps helicopter pilot.

Around the same time, Jónsdóttir developed ties to WikiLeaks by helping Julian Assange obtain and publish a classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad.

If you're a parent on board with this message, Wharton professor and author of the new book Originals Adam Grant has a message for you — it's time to rein in your Tiger Mom or helicopter dad tendencies.

And the captain turns to the guy — who was a sergeant — and says, «Well, you know, he's about to step on the helicopter — maybe the message just didn't get here in time.»

During his free time, you can find him at the gym, with his head buried in a good book, or flying helicopters as he works on obtaining his private pilot's license.

But as shown in the figure below, the speed of an aircraft does not always equal more time saved, and the TriFan completely trumps conventional business jets and helicopters in this regard.

The pope is a head o state of a sovereign country, several times the age of the US Empire and the pope used a cheap car to travel from the airport in Rio (a city where the mayor and governor travel by helicopter all the time) and stayed at a modest lodging belonging to the Catholic Church, not a 5 Star Hotel.

It reminds me of stories of folks letting people stay in their apartments in New York at the time of 9/11 and how the community came together in mourning ant the Clutha helicopter disaster in Glasgow.

Stuart's girlfriend Becky Dobson was also on holiday with the sons when they were killed in the helicopter crash at 5.20 pm local time on Saturday.

Investigators will interview witnesses, survivors, the helicopter operator and manufacturer and others before issuing a full report in at least a year's time.

Not much later the biggest mountain - rescue operation in U.S. history was launched — a woman in one of the other parties was reported in distress from exhaustion at the same time, complicating the situation — and after four days of suffering in a tent Day was lifted off the mountain by a helicopter flying some 1,300 feet above its rated ceiling.

A police helicopter was flown in to restore order, and referee Eric Castane was forced to add on extra time to make up for a stoppage that ruined what should have been a momentous occasion for the country.

What sort of fan is going to make that sort of journey in a noisy helicopter when they can fly first class in luxury in a fraction of the time and cost.

Heligirl: The Positive Discipline Mommy I'm Jen, a mom of two, a part time public relations manager, a freelance journalist, dog mom and a licensed helicopter pilot in Seattle.

Danny Hakim at The Times pointed out today that while the internal memo from Linda Lacewell does seem to include a passage that backs up the initial claims first report by The TU in 2007 — that then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno did use a state helicopter for non-official use at least once.

Phillips told The New York Times that instances in which de Blasio used a helicopter include a trip to Rikers Island, to a hospital to visit injured firefighters and to Hofstra University for last month's presidential debate.

In 2002, at a cost of $ 168m and at a project run - time of almost 15 years, a German project to build a combat UAV — an armed drone «able to autonomously find, identify and attack enemy tank units, command posts and helicopters in a distance of up to 150 km — was cancelleIn 2002, at a cost of $ 168m and at a project run - time of almost 15 years, a German project to build a combat UAV — an armed drone «able to autonomously find, identify and attack enemy tank units, command posts and helicopters in a distance of up to 150 km — was cancellein a distance of up to 150 km — was cancelled.

During his time as mayor of London, Boris Johnson did like to travel in style — including taking a helicopter ride over Hong Kong as part of a visit to China to promote trade between the far east and London.

In Spring 2007 top Spitzer aides had leaked reports to the Albany Times - Union about Senator Joe Bruno's use of state - owned cars and helicopters for trips to political fundraisers.

The monarch also sounded a note of warning to persons of questionable character lurking in the state that «their time is up» and urged them to «turn a new leaf and be reintegrated into the society, or face the fury of the law because it is clear that there is no place for criminals in Lagos State with the recent empowerment of Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the state with helicopters, flying boats, motorbikes and cars by this administration».

The troubled helicopter company involved in last month's deadly East River crash resumed its tourist photography flights for the first time yesterday — although with its no - refund policy still intact.

Eric Adams, an aviation journalist and photographer who was assigned to a different flight at the same time, said some of the passengers on the helicopter that crashed were dressed in light jackets, having apparently never been told by the tour company how cold it could get with the doors open and rotors spinning above.

Malloy and Lockheed Martin Corp., the parent company of Sikorsky, announced Tuesday that the helicopter maker will increase its full - time employment in Connecticut, now at about 7,600, to more than 8,000 by the end of the 14th year of the agreement.

In 2005, Hoon approved a # 1bn contract to this company, which was controversially declared a preferred bidder, despite claims that other companies could have provided better value - for - money helicopters in quicker timIn 2005, Hoon approved a # 1bn contract to this company, which was controversially declared a preferred bidder, despite claims that other companies could have provided better value - for - money helicopters in quicker timin quicker time.

Trump had left the stage by the time Astorino was speaking and a few minutes later, his helicopter, bearing his name in large letters, flew over Empire State Plaza, where the rally was held.

Regan said she wished the prosecution had brought up Bruno's use of state helicopters, which she read about in the Times Union.

«I say that it's time if the Sheriff can find in his budget or find it through grants or go forward with what this legislature has asked him to do and get the private sector to pay for the helicopter, then I have no problem with it,» said Rhinehart.

By the time the team had excavated all the bones and encased them in plaster, the collection weighed 3,000 pounds, heavier than the helicopter could lift.

Now we're working on our second goal — to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter.»

Using a helicopter for just 20 hours of flight time in April 2012, a consortium put together by Evans imaged 370 square kilometers of terrain, encompassing Angkor and two nearby temple complexes, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker.

When a hummingbird hovers, it beats its wings in a figure - of - eight pattern up to 80 times per second, much like a helicopter.

In applying the GIS technology to factor ambulance versus medical helicopter response times, the researchers examined more than 10 years of medical helicopter transports in a five county area surrounding Frederick County, Maryland, over 2000 - 201In applying the GIS technology to factor ambulance versus medical helicopter response times, the researchers examined more than 10 years of medical helicopter transports in a five county area surrounding Frederick County, Maryland, over 2000 - 201in a five county area surrounding Frederick County, Maryland, over 2000 - 2011.

The way helicopter rotor blades produce their characteristic noise has been photographed for the first time, in a bid to make the craft run more quietly

PNNL is adapting the Multi-Sensor Airborne Radiation System (MARS) for first - time deployment on a helicopter in late 2012.

I wouldn't mind a ride in this L'Oreal helicopter:) Have a lovely Christmas time < 3 xx, Carmen — http://www.carmitive.com

But a week goes by and right around the time you conclude he must have met an untimely end in a freak helicopter crash, he calls and asks you to dinner.

Anyway, this time in the continuing adventures of Nancy Macbook and Spanky the Damaged Billionaire: following the stalker mystery and helicopter crash of Fifty Shades Darker, the film rejoins our drama - prone couple on the morning of their wedding, when things seem to have calmed down somewhat, at least for a bit.

Guns aren't the only thing at your disposal either, at times you'll find tanks, helicopters, hover bikes, and even mechs to assist you in the destruction of the Ravagers, the name for the alien race that is attacking earth.

These designs are spread across a range of eras and it's fascinating to feel the advance in helicopter technology over time.

The Brooklyn Nine - Nine star can be seen standing alongside Deadpool, Domino, and a group of other fighters in the back of a helicopter, but that's the only time we see his character in the trailer, and we have no confirmation yet as to who he's playing.

Domino is seen several times throughout the trailer - fighting members of a weird Doomsday cult (more on that later), firing her submachine gun / knife combo in the middle of a battle, and standing alongside Deadpool and Terry Crews (more on that later) in the back of a helicopter.

If you were just starting out, if you helicoptered in from another country and tried to do it, you would trip over yourself a million times.

But the highlight of my weekend was going up in a helicopter for the first time.

More photos with the Ferrari FF, but this time from an altitude of 2,350 meters, at the top of Plan De Corones, in the Dolomites, where Ferrari's first four wheel drive model arrived by helicopter.

As he inventoried the lot, Archy listened, at times screwing up his eyes, to the dead man's minty quadrophonic pressing of Airto's Fingers (CTI, 1972) played through the store's trusty Quadaptor, a sweet gizmo that had been hand - dived from a Dumpster by Nat Jaffe and refurbished by Archy, a former army helicopter electrician holding 37.5 percent — last time he'd bothered to check — of a bachelor's in electrical engineering from SF State.

I went to school during separating from active duty in the Air Force and while being in the Air Force Guard to be a helicopter pilot on a 70k private student loan from a company in 2007 that gave me that loan while being a waiter making a little over 3 dollars an hour at the time.

This means that, in the time that they were out galavanting around ostensibly taking glider rides, touring Seattle in Charlie Tango the helicopter and making sure that they ate semi-constantly, they were probably also throwing on a little Thomas Tallis and getting bus - ay.