With unparalleled timekeeping accuracy and at-a-glance, cockpit-fast readability, the black-dialed Calibre 36 RS Caliper swept the most prestigious awards in the watchmaking world, including "2008 Sports Watch of the Year" at the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie in Geneva, "Best Chronograph of the Year" at the 2008.
There was nothing but the sound of frigid March wind when Ken climbed out of the cockpit as fast as his 62-year-old body, battered by diabetes and three bouts of cancer, would let him.
The remote-pilot in, say, Nevada who pushed the button that killed al-Awlaki is as answerable for his actions as the pilot in the cockpit of a fast jet; and so are the drone pilot's commanders right up to Mr Obama himself.In Pakistan, drone strikes are conducted to support a counter-insurgency operation.
When we fast we voluntarily short out the cockpit lights in our daily routines, hoping that in the self-induced darkness we might actually be able to see our way forward a little better.
WASHINGTON — Sixteen seconds before a U.P.S. cargo plane crashed on approach to the airport in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday morning, an automated system in the cockpit warned that the aircraft, an Airbus A300, was descending too fast, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
Andy Green, the world's fastest car driver, likes to think of his cockpit as an "office".
Finally, the third job for the cockpit is to be the centre for the world's fastest outside broadcast studio.
Leaders need to take stock of the words of Chuck Yeager, the first test pilot to travel faster than sound: "Just before a breakthrough the cockpit will shake".
Daydream started out with a cart racer, but this is more of a traditional fast sports car thing, which puts you right in the cockpit.
The jet fell too fast to manage a landing, if the pilots were still alive in the cockpit.
The three-passenger jet it seats four aft of the cockpit, but air taxi operators such as DayJet are going with three passenger seats–is fast enough to fit with the jumbo jets at O'Hare and slow enough to slip into the pattern with Pipers and Bonanzas at tiny general aviation airports.
