jumbo-jet

Since Concorde's last flight in 2003, commercial air travel has remained entirely sub-sonic, with the average cruising speed of a jumbo-jet reaching up to 900kph.

Going Hypersonic Michelle Price 2011

At least two jumbo-jet cargo planes deliver Thai ingredients to London each week and there are even larger amounts of British shellfish and prime beef going to Continental Europe every day, while foie gras, cheese and prime vegetables from the Rungis Market in Paris are shipped across the English Channel.

A Broadening of the Mind Bruce Palling 2011

Pan Am crossed oceans with flying boats and launched the jumbo-jet Boeing 747 in 1970.

Return of Pan Am, for a Weekend Scott McCartney 2011

"Are we talking about a regular-sized bottle, or a supersized jumbo-jet full of liquor?"

Did You Know? Some tequila is priced at $225,000 2008

"Are we talking about a regular-sized bottle, or a supersized jumbo-jet full of liquor?"

Did You Know? Some tequila is priced at $225,000 2008

The other is the Airborne Laser, or ABL, a monstrous jumbo-jet mounted energy ray intended to disintegrate threatening nuclear missiles from hundreds of kilometres away.

Laser Cannons » Fanboy.com 2008

If you believe that a 75-foot-wide jumbo-jet can disappear totally in a 15-foot-wide hole leaving absolutely no traces behind, you have a problem.

Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009

If you believe that a 75-foot-wide jumbo-jet can disappear totally in a 15-foot-wide hole leaving absolutely no traces behind, you have a problem.

Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009

IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME ONE OF Russia's unmanned Proton rockets blasts off from the Baikonur space center: the launch triggers a wind as powerful as the thrust of 150 jumbo-jet engines, a wind that roars over the steppes of Kazakhstan and rumbles the windows at mission control.

The Ultimate Thrill Ride 2008

Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay for our automobility—they kill the equivalent of a dozen jumbo-jet crashes every day—plus the countless number of hours we waste in gridlock traffic commuting to work, running errands, picking up our kids, and searching for parking, and we can't help but ask: Haven't we had enough already?

Autophobia James Gurney 2008