Sentence examples for weight of fuel from inspiring English sources
The great hurdle in all space missions is the cost of launch and the weight of fuel.
One peculiarity of the Washington Treaty was that it defined warship size by devising new "standard" tonnages, which excluded the weight of fuel and reserve feed water.
In the proposed mission scenario, a number of geosynchronous satellites require a specified weight of fuel to be delivered.
Other handicaps of the medium-speed alternative are a greater number of cylinders for a given power rating and a specific fuel rate (weight of fuel burned per unit of output) that is typically higher than with low-speed engines.
An experimental set-up has been designed and fabricated to simulate sagging (downward deformation) of PT due to its own weight and the weight of fuel bundles for 220 MWe IPHWRs.
Southwest was still racking up a 35% increase in profits in the fourth quarter of last year, even as the big airlines' five-year run of fat profits collapsed under the weight of fuel costs, weather disruption and labour problems.By contrast, the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI), based in Washington, DC, is a strong advocate of the United/US Airways merger.
The primary reason for doing so is to exploit the greater heat release per unit weight of fuels that have a higher ratio of hydrogen to carbon atoms than ordinary fractions of petroleum even though this gain is partly negated by the higher volume per unit of heat release of those same fuels.
Uncertainty in the outcomes of fire-smart management arises mainly from insufficient understanding of the relative weights of fuel and weather-drought on the fire regime.
The relatively small effect of the weight flow of fuel in creating a difference between the weight flow of the inlet and exhaust streams is intentionally disregarded.
The fuel fraction, the weight of the fuel divided by the weight of the aircraft at take-off, was 83 percent.
The major focus of the current fuel cell industry is on reduction of cost and weight of the fuel cell stack for its commercial application.
