Sentences with phrase «when airliners»

Emily Lakdawalla explains why Curiosity has joined the fraternity of backward driving rovers on Mars, and Bill Nye considers the not - too - distant future when airliners and spaceliners will share the sky.

Not exact matches

Battery - powered devices, from laptops to hoverboards, could pose a fire risk to airliners when stowed, airlines and regulators have warned.

Shreyas added that most people aren't aware that when a plane is cruising, «the air pressure in an airliner is equal to about 8,000 feet above sea level (6,000 ft in a Dreamliner).

The case took another turn in October, when Bombardier announced that it would move production of the CSeries airliner to Alabama in a partnership with French jet maker Airbus.

That's when the UK's chances of dominating the post-war aviation market were dashed by fatal in - flight failures of the de Havilland Comet, the first airliner to sport a pressurised aluminium fuselage.

Concerns over the Dreamliner kicked off over a decade ago when Boeing decided to create a civil airliner that would be both lighter than any of its previous jets and fly with leaner - burning engines to cut the plane's emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

«Like airliners you don't have to be efficient when you're landing and taking off; you just need to be slow so you don't break anything,» says Palmer.

The captain of a large jet airliner had just switched off the seat belt sign when Susan's heart started to race, she was getting palpitations and sweaty palms and even feeling a tiny bit of sickness in her tummy.

When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.

Under the credits, the film introduced Mr. Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), a first - class passenger on a jet airliner, who first declined a movie videocassette from the flight attendant, claiming he preferred the theater, but then acquiesed when she again asked: «Would you consider the cinema of the Ukraine?»

The infamous DRM measurement has been in yesterday's PC release of Sonic Mania, meaning those hoping to play on their PC when their internet goes down, while they're on a budget airliner, the back of a car or vacationing out in the sticks are now out of luck as it requires Steam to be logged in and operational before it'll boot up Sonic Mania.

Based on true events as told by Port Authority police officers Sgt. John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno (played here by Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena, respectively), the story takes place on September 11, 2001 when two commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center.

The carrier flew Airbus A340 airliners from the city - state to New York's Newark airport — a journey of over 15,000 kilometres — from 2004 to 2013, when the service was suspended to cut costs.

The infamous DRM measurement has been in yesterday's PC release of Sonic Mania, meaning those hoping to play on their PC when their internet goes down, while they're on a budget airliner, the back of a car or vacationing out in the sticks are now out of luck as it requires Steam to be logged in and operational before it'll boot up Sonic Mania.

Worldwide political tensions are at a breaking point when a commercial airliner is shot down by a U.S. missile over Eastern Europe, killing all aboard.

Consider this: if, when the Comet airliners were crashing in the 1950's, politicians and bureaucracies had excessively regulated aviation as they have done with nuclear, so that air fares were much higher and passenger numbers 1 / 10th to 1/20 of what they are now, would passenger air travel have be safer?

When a commercial passenger airliner crashes, survivors or the families of the people killed in the crash may not know what to do.