There was also a quick modesty check onboard to ensure that the female passengers conformed to Iran's conservative dress code.Ashore, the Americans, women swathed in headscarves, men festooned with cameras, were an incongruous sight.
American has newly designed bag sizers at every gate to allow customers to check for themselves if their bags will fit onboard.
Calibration and gamma correction were checked using the onboard calibration system, a Cambridge Research Systems Optical photometer, and a Photoresearch Spectrascan 650 spectroradiometer.
Place your onboard checked baggage as well as any keys, phones, or anything metal in small bins/containers the FAA TSA agent should be able to give to you (upon request).
Barring that, you could keep listening for onboard announcements and checking the Web, on the off chance that the railroad will get around to doing something helpful.
Mission controllers will spend the next three months checking that the systems and scientific instruments onboard Rosetta and its lander are in working order.
We worked together on several things, checking each other's websites for typos, feedback on onboarding, proof-reading decks, and practicing pitches.
Investigators' only clue to MH370's possible whereabouts was a series of hourly electronic "handshakes" made between Inmarsat equipment onboard the plane and ground stations that were automatically checking to see if a satellite connection was still open.
The way it works is rather ingenious: With a push of a button, an onboard computer checks the speed of each wheel, verifies traction (or the lack of it) and, using the antilock braking system, can slow any single wheel to keep the vehicle descending smoothly.
Attendance was checked by scanning of onboard identification cards, which hold muster station information.
