Small airplanes, including vintage World War II fliers, take off and land at the Hemet Ryan Airport.
When you take off and land, you double your chances of encountering delays due to weather or air traffic control.
A380 can take off and land on the same runways as the big Boeing, thanks to the efficiency of its wings.
As a result, plane spotters get one of the world's closest public views of giant airliners as they take off and land.
XCOR's Lynx, roughly the size of a small airplane, will take off and land on a runway and propel itself with liquid-fuel engines.
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Reading West MP Alok Sharma has called for the helicopter to take off and land further away from the house to reduce the noise.
But fewer controllers will mean planes have to take off and land less frequently so as not to overload controllers on duty, he said.
The FAA has said that planes will have to take off and land less frequently, so as not to overload the remaining controllers on duty.
So they are buying a version of the next-generation joint strike fighter that can take off and land vertically, eliminating the need for long runways or aircraft carrier catapults.
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Obviously, as always, safety is our top priority, and we will never allow the amount of air travel we can handle safely to take off and land, which means travelers should expect delays.
Kirk Flittie, who manages the Global Observer program for AeroVironment, says operating costs are low because the plane doesn't have to take off and land very often and it uses propulsion systems and electronics developed for the company's high-flying solar-powered planes.
This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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Nowadays, behind Skunk Works' highly secure perimeter, engineers reportedly are working on the aviation wonders of tomorrow, including a lightweight cargo plane called the X-55A and a bizarre, blimp-like airship called the P-791 Hybrid Air Vehicle, which has special technology that allows it to take off and land just about anywhere.
Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.
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The conspicuous, delayed test run proved that the LEMV could take off, steer and land smoothly, and started a series of exercises that should culminate in combat trials over Afghanistan at the start of 2013.
Drones are already able to take off, fly a mission and land without any human intervention, and a mechanical dog developed by the Pentagon can walk for 20 miles (32km) without a break and obey voice commands.
In the county where I grew up there is a municipal airport that can, in a pinch, handle up to a 707-sized aircraft, so smaller jets could land and take off from there.
"The aircraft had to be able to land and take off in 125 meters, it also had to have a very low noise output and the aircraft needed to be able to accelerate rapidly up to 350 mph in order to get point to point at low level very quickly, " said Avcen managing director Mike Dacre.
Military aircraft land at and take off from an airstrip there at all hours.
It can land on and take off from strips as short as 2, 250 feet.
On Tuesday, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially announced the private sector participants in its Transformer X project to build a Humvee that can take off, fly hundreds of miles, and land with little human input.
The world needs such simple to make easy to fly safe anti stall zero crash craft to be able to spread out to currently unpopulated areas and to increase the agricultural land we can use which would take the load off current city and town infrastructure.
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"What appears to have happened is that he (the pilot) didn't manage to land and he tried to take off again, " Capt.
In a recent op-ed in the New York Times he argues we are running out of land and need to take agriculture off the farm.
"We considered over 30 designs and believe that the QSST is the only design that meets all the desired requirements including range, take-off and landing field length, take-off noise, emissions and sufficiently low sonic boom characteristics to enable supersonic flight over land, " he told CNN.
And a new aviation measure calls on states to deny aircraft permission to take off, land or fly over their territory if illicit cargo is suspected to be aboard.
In December, flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were forced to take off from Newquay Airport because of a waterlogged runway at Land's End.
Philip Fenton's star rewarded those brave enough to take a prohibitive 30-100 price to land the Deloitte Novice Hurdle by two and a half lengths without coming off the bridle.
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