Sentence examples for dme from inspiring English sources

The position of the aircraft can be determined by combining the distance indicated by the DME with the direction from a VOR beacon at the same site as the DME beacon.

Renewable DME could be upwards of three times more expensive per gigajoule than diesel (currently $15/gigajoule), or DME produced with non-renewable methanol ($17/gigajoule).

Alternatively, position can be established by triangulation, using the distances between the airplane and two well-separated DME beacons.

Aircraft fitted with DME transmit radio pulses at one of 126 designated frequencies; arrival of these pulses at a DME beacon on the ground causes the beacon after a 50-microsecond delay to transmit responding pulses at another frequency.

Jim Patel is a research scientist at the CSIRO who has been leading an Australia-India Strategic Research Fund project investigating the small scale production of DME.

He suggests it might be more affordable to initially produce a proportion of DME from renewable sources and gradually increase this.

Volvo has begun developing DME-powered engines for heavy trucks in North America and its subsidiary, Mack, is running a demonstration with municipal sanitation trucks in New York City.

Decca is very well suited to navigation of helicopters, however, which usually operate at altitudes well below those at which VOR/DME is most effective.

Aircraft installations are less common than those of VOR/DME, the internationally accepted system for position finding.

Dinner at Le Dme costs $60 a head, plus drinks.

Her son Darien, 28, founder of DME Interactive Holdings, a New York company that provides Internet access and customized content to minority households, hired her last May as general manager to oversee operations after it began trading publicly.