Sentence examples for runway distance from inspiring English sources

These include wind, runway surface conditions, landing or take-off distances required, the presence of obstacles, runway distance available, the existence and dimensions of runway safety areas.

Because heavier planes are harder to speed up, they'll need more runway distance to reach their minimum takeoff speed in warmer weather.

An unnamed pilot lost control and struck a runway distance marker while landing in Amarillo, Texas.

The crew members compared that number to a chart showing the runway length; they did not realize that the computer's number included the "air run" distance from the end of the runway to the normal touchdown point.

Other characters are occasionally visible behind her: her smiling husband, a grim-faced soldier in uniform or a tiny figure looking toward her standing upon the tarmac of the runway in the distance.

With that information you should be able to complete the following sum (note that the division sign is substituted by a forward slash /) Distance from runway / your speed = answer x 60 = time in minutes to reach the runway.

The route remains four lanes, but becomes a boulevard through wide fields for a distance, passing runway 28 of North Buffalo Suburban Airport.

For 19-hour flights to return, America's Federal Aviation Administration would probably have to do away with a longstanding rule that requires two-engine planes to stay within a certain distance of runways where they can land in case of trouble.

Until the introduction of heavy monoplane aircraft in the latter part of the 1930s, civil air-transport aircraft were able to operate from grass runways with takeoff distances of less than 600 metres (2,000 feet).

Developing Northolt – and perhaps connecting it to Heathrow with a high speed rail link – would allow the government to avoid accusations of a U-turn as the third runway would then be some distance from the main airport.

In its retirement, the orbiter will be displayed just a short distance from the runway where it and every other shuttle has arrived home over three decades, a few miles from the launch pad where the men of the Apollo era began their journeys to the Moon.