Flight in sentence

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The system measures the beam's time of flight, recording the time it takes for the light to hit a surface and make its return.

And my job was to write many of the algorithms and code for NASA to do virtual surgery in preparation for the astronauts going into deep-space flight, so they could be kept in robotic pods.

Ladies and gentlemen, a historic flight has begun.

It's not steering, it's flight.

BG: So the beginning of the flight is actually you jump off a plane or a helicopter, and you go on a dive and accelerate the engines, and then you basically take off mid-air somewhere.

So let's say for instance that you're on your way to your best friend's wedding and you're trying to get to the airport and you're stuck in terrible traffic, and you finally arrive at your gate and you've missed your flight.

You're going to experience more regret in that situation if you missed your flight by three minutes than if you missed it by 20.

Why? Well because, if you miss your flight by three minutes, it is painfully easy to imagine that you could have made different decisions that would have led to a better outcome.

So what is it about getting on a long-haul flight that makes these rights vaporize?

It says, 'This plane has hundreds of thousands of tiny parts working together to make you a safe flight.'

In fact, many of these vehicles are operated by flight crews that can include multiple pilots, operators of sensors, and mission coordinators.

As you can see in this figure-eight flight, they come within inches of each other.

And despite the aerodynamic interactions with these propeller blades, they're able to maintain stable flight.

Sometimes when I'm on a long plane flight, I gaze out at all those mountains and deserts and try to get my head around how vast our Earth is.

The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.

You see, they were having trouble in this flight regime, and it wasn't at all clear that we could fly faster than the speed of sound.

And on that first flight we got more data than in all U-2 missions combined.

This is the actual rocketcam footage from flight one.

In the first flight, no aerodynamic control of the vehicle.

But we collected more hypersonic flight data than in 30 years of ground-based testing combined.

And in the second flight, three minutes of fully-controlled, aerodynamic flight at Mach 20.

(CA: What happened on that second flight?)

And so in the second flight, we were able to get three minutes of fully aerodynamic control of the vehicle before we lost it.

CA: I'm curious, you started your beautiful sequence on flight with a plane kind of trying to flap its wings and failing horribly, and there haven't been that many planes built since that flap wings.

So a flight from conversation can really matter because it can compromise our capacity for self-reflection.

The epidemic was introduced to the US by actually one male steward on an airline flight, who got the disease in Africa and brought it back.

That is, to send more winged queens and males to that year's mating flight.

We also will be doing another demonstration later this year on if we have an issue with the rocket during flight.

The longest part of that flight is actually the boat out and back.

"Persepolis" brought a daughter closer to her Iranian mother, and "Jaws" became the way in which one young boy was able to articulate the fear he'd experienced in flight from violence that killed first his father then his mother, the latter thrown overboard on a boat journey.

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