Feet on the brakes, I followed John's instructions to bring the power up to takeoff level, my cue being a computer display on the panel.
Bad weather forced the wide-body Boeing 767-400 to sit several hours in a JFK conga-line of jets waiting to takeoff.
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The Boeing 727 I was travelling in, taking a dozen passengers to Islamabad, had to fly back to Kabul airport shortly after takeoff.
Another Japan Airlines' 787 in Boston had to scrap a takeoff on Tuesday due to a fuel leak.
With its ability to takeoff and land from a short runway, the jetpod's inventors believe the options to build a supporting infrastructure in the city center are endless.
Example: a new system the company recently sold to EasyJet, a low-cost carrier in the U.K. Pilots hook up a laptop in the cockpit prior to takeoff and fill out all paperwork, download charts and complete their flight plans.
SNECMA, relied on an after-burner to generate the acceleration needed for takeoff and to break the sound barrier.
Even if we don't know Oxytocin from OxyContin or our vagus from Las Vegas, we seem to know intuitively how to prepare our spirits for takeoff -- even when the forecast calls for grounding all flights.
You won't twirl the car like a top, but at the same time it is possible to slide the back end out a tad, and to spin the tires on takeoff.
When a plane returns to the gate, the flight has to get in line again for takeoff.
By early 2014, passengers may be able to use certain electronic devices in airplane mode during takeoff and landing, according to a New York Times report.
Huffington was on a United Express flight operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines from Washington to New York on Saturday night when a fellow traveler became upset when she allegedly continued to use her smartphone after the pilot asked passengers to turn off electronic devices before takeoff.
President Bush said other steps were under consideration to reduce crowded skies, such as charging airlines higher landing and takeoff fees at peak hours, and auctioning off landing and takeoff rights to the highest bidder.
Eventually productivity did take off--but even the Bush Administration's own Council of Economic Advisers dates the beginning of that takeoff to 1995.
The whole ordeal, from takeoff to crash, lasted only 70 seconds.
Anti-icing fluid also has an additive that thickens it more than deicing fluid to help it adhere to aircraft surfaces as it speeds down the runway during takeoff.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved the use of the tablets in 2011, but American is the first commercial carrier to receive the agency's approval to use them in the cockpit during all phases of flight from gate to gate, including during landing and takeoff.
Currently, airlines require the devices to be turned off during takeoff and landing.
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Regulators believe there is a chance that electronic emissions from passenger devices could interfere with navigation instruments, and if even the remotest possibility of disaster exists, it's better to turn them off for takeoff and landing.
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If IAG were allowed to keep all of bmi's takeoff and landing slots at Heathrow, its share of these would rise from about 45% to 53%.
Rubinstein was hunting near the crash sites of two airplanes that went down in the same area: Eastern Flight 401, a New York flight that crashed as it prepared to land in Miami in 1972, and ValuJet Flight 592, a 1996 flight to Atlanta that caught fire shortly after takeoff and plummeted into the remote swamps west of Miami.
Its legendary operational drill entails everything from training drivers to hold their keys on a pinky finger so they don't waste time fumbling for them in pockets to asking employees to clean off desks at day's end so they can be clear for takeoff in the a.m.
And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff.
During the demonstration flights, a pilot handled the takeoff and climb to cruising altitude.
Much more than a cosmetic enhancement for visual appeal, they increase lift, reduce drag and lower stall speed, which translates to a considerable performance boost on takeoff, climb, cruise and landing.
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The Dart takeoff would seem to be an answer to critics, notably the Wall Street Journal, who lately have faulted Chrysler for oversubscribing the proportion of early Darts that rolled off the assembly line in Belvidere, Ill.
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To fight surgical infections, often caused by harried doctors forgetting to administer preoperative antibiotics, the hospital initiated a pre-op pause, like the one for pilots before a takeoff: Everyone stops for 30 seconds to make sure all safety steps have been taken.
The DC-9 crashed shortly after takeoff on a Miami to Atlanta flight, killing all 110 people aboard.
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