Sentence examples for delay landing from inspiring English sources

Eastern time, though problems like rain, low clouds over the landing strip or high winds can cause mission managers to delay landing or put it off to a second day.

A thunderstorm in North Carolina forced the plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden to delay landing for more than 30 minutes.

Nearly everything that could go wrong did, starting with a delayed landing by the force attacking the main waterfront, code-named Red and White Beaches.

British historian Max Hastings notes that because of the delay in landing times by ten minutes, a substantial gap existed between the cessation of bombardment and the actual landing of the first waves of infantry, meaning that platoons of the 716th had ample time to return to their positions.

Sometimes it is necessary for the pilot to delay a landing to wait for optimum conditions.

In two unmanned orbital missions on the Russian spacecrafts Foton M-2 and M-3 we investigated the response of the snail gravisensing system to the space mission, which persists largely of the µG exposure, within a brief delay after landing.

These include air traffic delays to landing and takeoff movements; congestion on runways, taxiways, and aprons; crowding and delays in terminal buildings; or severe congestion in such access facilities as parking areas, internal roads, and public transport.

The results cut average delays in landing to four minutes, from seven.

Then he had to endure nine months of bureaucratic delays before landing a job in his field in March.

Hundreds of soccer fans missed the World Cup semi-final between Germany and Spain yesterday after chaos at the airport in Durban delayed their landing or forced planes to turn back, local media reported.

Drawing on the only tsunami data available, captured by a GPS tracking system set up 12 miles offshore, researchers used computer modeling to conclude that the breakwater had done its job: it had reduced the height of the first wave by 40 percent, delayed its landing by six minutes and saved countless lives.