The report said the Airprox board had been of the opinion that the object was unlikely to have been a fixed wing aircraft, helicopter or hot air balloon, given that it had not shown up on radar.

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Five grand in the flying world is three months of fixed costs before I ever get the plane in the air.

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But once Korean Air figured out that their problem was cultural, they fixed it.

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There are no fixed walls, and each deck is hollow, allowing technicians to run compressed air, electricity and data feeds to wherever they are needed.

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When he took over the Civil Aeronautics Board for President Jimmy Carter in 1977 air travel was regulated to the hilt, with prices, routes and returns all fixed and aircraft, which could compete only on the number of flights and the meals they served, flying half-full.

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Jones added sensors that, by monitoring the air temperature above and below the heli ten times a second, can keep the chopper at a fixed altitude with more accuracy than a human on the ground can.

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Richard Myers estimated Tuesday, in an afternoon briefing to reporters, that the first hours of the air operation resulted in an "85 percent" success rate, and had effectively cleared away most fixed, ground-based threats to U.S. aircraft.

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