They also can be moulded to make maximum use of irregular spaces in an aircraft.
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Harry admitted that he was more at home in an aircraft cockpit than a classroom.
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Not everyone likes to shop in an aircraft hangar and buy enough to feed the 5, 000.
"In an aircraft we work out which parts are most critical and make sure they're protected one way or another, " he added.
You can't beat the feeling of being in an aircraft by yourself.
It is currently being assembled in an aircraft hangar at Newquay.
With the ability to offer lowest-price guarantees and exclusive online services, such as picking your own seat in an aircraft, the travel providers may well move into the lead.
The German Aerospace Centre has tested this idea in an aircraft using a fuel cell to power two electric motors built into the hub of an aircraft nose wheel.
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"There's never been any proof that self-certification ever resulted in a problem in an aircraft, " said John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the nation's top aviation investigation agency.
There is also audio of the attempts to contact Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other cabinet members in an aircraft codenamed Wayside which had been over the Pacific en route to Asia.
But the shift towards synthetic fuel has provoked criticism, because when such fuel is made from coal and then burned in an aircraft engine, more greenhouse gases are emitted overall than would be produced if the aircraft simply burned conventional fuel derived from oil.
Unfortunately, because of the nature of air circulation, any downward-pointing force created aerodynamically generates a backward-pointing resistance in the process just as an increase in the lift of an aircraft wing as the flaps are lowered for take-off or landing creates more drag in the process, forcing the pilot to open the engine throttles to overcome the extra wind resistance.
He was the first to cross the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia in an ultralight aircraft, basically a lawn chair attached to a kite and propeller.
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While Boeing took a gamble in creating an aircraft so dependent on electrical systems and composite aerostructures, it has already gone through the lengthy and painful process of convincing regulators the Dreamliner is safe.
What makes aircraft fatigue such an dark art is that, unlike standard tests done in a laboratory, an aircraft's structure has to endure a complex, mostly random, set of static as well as cyclical stresses when in service.
Firefighters have taken part in a night training exercise which simulated an aircraft crash in Glasgow.
He was not consciously a military planner: during the second world war he was a sergeant in charge of an anti-aircraft battery in Southampton.
It will involve travelling through two airports and spending about 12 hours in total inside an aircraft.
That date is significant, of course, since it was the day when six Arizona-based Muslim clerics were removed in Minneapolis from an aircraft operated by US Air.
We sometimes are in need of an aircraft carrier.
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JDAM-enhanced bombs can function in all weathers, and also permits the aircraft involved in an attack to retreat in safety, rather than having to guide the bomb home.
It appears that, on reflection, the Wyoming House of Representatives has decided the risk of invasion by its neighbors is remote enough that it can do without its own armed forces for now, and in particular does not need to consider whether an aircraft carrier might come in handy.
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On September 26, 2012, McCay pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of attempting to interfere with the authorized operation of an aircraft flying in the United States.
Kevin Smith is a Vietnam veteran from Newton, North Carolina, who suffered knee and back injuries in an accident aboard an aircraft carrier.
The 19-year-old was convicted by magistrates of shining a light at an aircraft in flight so as to dazzle or distract the pilot.
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D. in programmable assembly and nanotechnology is perched in his workshop, an aircraft control tower at an abandoned naval station across the bay from San Francisco.
Statistics from 2001 to 2005 show that a hour spent riding in a helicopter was about 40% more likely to result in an accident than an hour spent in a fixed-wing aircraft.
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In the case of Fairchild Dornier, an aircraft firm bought by America's Clayton, Dubilier and Rice in 1997, poor business strategy led to bankruptcy.
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There are huge models of ships scattered throughout the restaurant, including an aircraft carrier in the lobby.
The Federal Aviation Administration is limiting the amount of luggage passengers can carry onto aircraft, in an effort to further tighten security at U.S. airports.
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