To the Editor: Concerning Susan Catto's article "Airline Seating: Timing, Luck," (Practical Traveler, June 2), on overseas flights, we leave from Baltimore and the most convenient airline is British Airways.
To the Editor: "Airline Seating: Timing, Luck" (Practical Traveler, June 2), by Susan Catto, brought my wife and me back to 1965 and our first flight to Europe via London.
He had some help: the "American Idol" winner Fantasia delivered a short, fierce set of screaming R&B, and the stand-up comedian known as Speedy did a familiar but effective routine, gleefully roasting audience members who had good seats and bad timing.
The only germane statement is the third; the first holds only if Johnson promises to give them a piece of his profits if he sells (again, more airborne oinkers), and the second relies on timing, seat location and desire to sell.
Further work is needed to explore the effect of the different design trends in modern seats on the timing and amplitude of the neck muscle response.
All the critical parameters describing the engine valve event, i.e., lift, timing, duration and seating velocity, can be continuously varied by controlling the triggering timings of three two-state valves.
Computer chips now manage everything from air-bags, door-locks and seat adjustments to ignition timing, throttle position, fuel injection, gear selection, cruise control, stability, and increasingly the brakes.
Here, James can keep his emotional distance, the way he prefers it and the way late-arriving fans reciprocate, slipping into their seats as if they were timing their arrival to miss the preshow commercials before a movie.
Some are truly sordid, such as GOP Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's succession to her father's seat: he arranged for the timing of his resignation to allow him, newly elected governor, to name the new Senator, who happened to be his daughter.
The actuators, powered by a geared brushless motor connected to a spool via a timing belt, wind up seat-belt webbing onto the spool so that a large travel is possible with a simple, compact mechanism.
"I think the timing is right," he said, seated in his cigar-smoking tent in the courtyard of the smoke-free Capitol.
