Sentences with phrase «when aircraft»

There were often hours of boredom during a 16 - hour midnight shift interspersed with minutes of an adrenalin rush, for example at 4 am when an aircraft with hundreds of people onboard is on approach to an icy runway with an engine failure and relying on you to assist them.

V7497 was flown by Flying Officer Rogers when the aircraft was felled by three Me109s.

A danger only exists when the aircraft (a) is in motion and (b) is occupied.

When aircraft designers design an airplane, they don't design for a 1 % probability of an in - flight structural failure.

I have been a participant in several «root cause analysis» having been told such an exercise comes from the aircraft industry; i.e., when an aircraft crashes and burns, that is an excursion.

Vestas InteliLight ® activates turbine aviation lights when an aircraft is flying in the immediate vicinity of a wind power plant.

I'm working really hard to capture the moment between when the aircraft are attacking and the moment after the attack, that line between life and death.»

Add on top of this the stuttering frame rate which plummets when your aircraft goes into «War Speed!»

You can find out just before departure, when the aircraft registration number is known.

According to regulations, «Inflight Connectivity» service or WiFi connection can only be accessed for internet browsing internet, social network, e-mail dan instant messaging when the aircraft is cruising above 10.000 ft. Passengers may not access the connection while the aircraft is taxiing, take off, and landing.

Philippe was killed when his aircraft - a converted Catalina - came in to land in Lisbon, Portugal a few years later.

Secondly, it increases the air resistance, as when an aircraft is landing.

This would change the way tarmac delays are calculated so that in the case of departures tarmac delays will be deemed to have ended when an aircraft begins to return to a suitable disembarkation point, rather than the current standard of when passengers are provided with an opportunity to deplane.

NASA is now testing the Quiet Spike, a privately - developed, telescoping nose attachment that breaks up the shock wave created when an aircraft hits the speed of sound, potentially reducing noise to 1/10, 000 of the Concorde's boom.

In - flight ice forms at altitudes up to 7300 metres (24,000 feet), when the aircraft's surfaces hit supercooled water droplets suspended in the air.

But the boom created when the aircraft breaks the sound barrier is so loud that it can shatter windows and dislodge roof tiles, so supersonic flights are banned or restricted in many areas.

The 29 - day deployment ended May 6 when the aircraft returned to its base in Palmdale, California after 19 flights totaling 97 hours in the air.

The situation is similar to the early days of aviation, when aircraft designers were working by trial and error because the atmosphere was so poorly understood.

This, he says, led to an unduly optimistic estimate of the risk when aircraft fly closer together.

Instead the RAF is spending # 3.2 million on a new repatriation centre at RAF Brize Norton, giving families of the bereaved «a very good view of what is happening when the aircraft land», defence minister Andrew Robathan told the Commons.

But the city and Daley, the guiding hand behind converting Meigs into a park, shot down a similar plan in May, when the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association first raised the possibility of using FAA funds to reopen the airport.

When an aircraft has a malfunction, pilots press the «reset» button on the alarm dashboard.

«When aircraft land, they'll be able to come back, refuel, rearm, in kind of a pit - stop model... really modeled after NASCAR,» Capt. John F. Meier, the commanding officer of Gerald R. Ford said of the new design.

Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.

Not exact matches

I say yes — you could also get more payload from an aircraft if you get rid of the landing gear and the flaps, and just parachuted out when you got to your destination — but that would be crazy, and you would sell zero aircraft.

«But, of course, the CIA knew the flight paths of Soviet satellites, and they would avoid having their aircraft in the open when satellites were overhead,» Day told SPACE.com.

«We have been open and collaborative throughout this process on this negotiation, but what I will tell you is it's a complex negotiation because... when you consider 130 aircraft for this next lot, it's very important to understand the cost,» said Marillyn Hewson, chief of Lockheed Martin.

That's because Fokker, the Dutch aircraft manufacturer that made the planes KLM first flew when the airline was formed 97 years ago, has always had been a staple of the airline.

Air Force officials dealing with the shortage have said it could eventually prevent the Air Force from deploying aircraft and resources when they are needed.

It's like trying to fly a plane that's missing a few parts: it might get you off the ground, but how long can that aircraft sustain flight when you don't have everything you need to keep it in the air?

The airport, located to the west of London, operates at full capacity meaning it struggles to fit in its full schedule when weather conditions mean aircraft need to leave longer gaps on the runway.

The Air Canada subsidiary, which launched last summer, expects to expand its workforce to 650 by the end of the year when its number of aircraft increases to 33.

In this case, history may pinpoint the breach to that moment on October 4 when an orca - shaped, stubby - winged aircraft planted its almost comically spindly legs on a runway in California's Mojave Desert.

One is that when it comes to safety issues — and in aircraft design, almost everything is a safety issue — everyone should be quick to raise questions.

But when taken together, the Ford line of aircraft carriers shows the direction forward as envisioned by the US's naval planners.

In June 2017, when the UK's newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, went through sea trials, a Russian submarine was spying on it.

«It is when I stand at the aircraft door greeting people and get ignored.

The first incident was in November 2016 when a MiG - 29K ran out of fuel while waiting for repairs to the arresting wire, and the second was just a month later, when an Su - 33 crashed because the arresting wire failed to hold the aircraft.

When flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out passengers on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport in New York before grabbing a couple of beers and exiting the aircraft via the evacuation slide, jetBlue took a few days before deciding on an appropriate response.

China has been trying to build large passenger aircraft since the Mao Zedong era, when Communist officials bridled at the prospect of having to fly overseas on foreign - made aircraft.

«My fear is that public tolerance for a bad outcome is not like it was when we introduced the public to regular flight in fixed - wing aircraft.

In the skies above Hullavington airfield in south - west England, there was a time when trainee parachutists would leap out of aircraft into the void, trusting in the kit strapped to their backs to save them from falling to earth.

When a military aircraft has been targeted with a heat - seeking missile, one of the evasion tactics is to fire a decoy flare.

«To build the aircraft, Airbus needs to know where the parts are and when they are coming,» Premium Aerotec CEO Thomas Ehm told Reuters, adding that the Skywise platform aims to provide much better visibility of the manufacturing process.

Existing law dictates that government aircrafts are to be used only for «official purposes,» and when there is «no commercial airline or aircraft... reasonably available,» reports CREW.

Just count yourself lucky you're not listening to pink or brown noise, variants of white noise that boost or lower sub-frequencies and can sound like the noise you hear when you land on a TV channel that's not getting a cable signal (pink) or the inside of an aircraft (brown).

«Martin Aircraft, was valued at more than $ 100 million when it listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, after securing a cornerstone investment worth up to $ 50 million from Chinese aerospace group Kuang - Chi Science,» The Sydney Morning Herald reported at the time.

When European aircraft maker Airbus scouted sites for its $ 600 million North American plant more than a decade ago it settled on a former Air Force base in Mobile.

On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.

The so - called «lag pursuit» when the nose of an attacking plane points at the tail of the opponent's aircraft is considered the optimum location in an aerial fight.