Sentence examples for flight rate from inspiring English sources

But if the flight rate is high and the launching system is robust, then such complications could be overcome.

A20 NASA Advisory Panel Warning Shortages of skilled engineers and little past efforts to replace them may pose safety problems as the shuttle flight rate increases.

The shuttle program had neither the personnel nor the spare parts to maintain such an ambitious flight rate without straining its physical resources or overworking its technicians.

Major refurbishment was required between each launch; the highest flight rate achieved was in 1985, when the shuttle was launched nine times.

This limited the flight rate to six to eight missions per year; the 100th shuttle flight was not achieved until October 2000.

"Given their low flight rate of one mission every few years, I think it is hard to see them succeeding in this in the next five years, but possible to see them attempting it," he added.

Plug in your route and click on Flight Rating.

Expedia, for example, now gives a somewhat opaque flight rating alongside its prices.

But with flight rates rising to 8 annually, and occasionally going as high as 12, "this may no longer be the case," the panel said.

So, for instance, if you wanted to see which flights between Atlanta and Newark are most prone to problems, you would go to its Flight Rating section and find that while Continental Flight 1154 is on time 96percentt of the time, Continental Flight 1156 is on time only 44percentt of the time and was canceled or diverted 6percentt of the time over the last 60 days.

Historical flight rates suggested that Nasa would do well to complete the Endeavour mission by January.