Other people thought it was the bin men or a low flying jet.
The next thing for me is flying a jet plane like the Dassault Falcon 2000, which Ratan Tata flies.
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And unlike pilots at the scene, these remote observers are unaffected by the physical toil of flying a jet or the adrenalin rush of combat.
Listen to turn-by-turn directions from the inside of your motorcycle helmet, check your trail map from the handlebars of your mountain bike, plot your chart and find fish on your next boating trip, or steer clear of lightning strikes when flying your jet.
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Here is Al Gore flying a private jet again to a public speaking appearance in San Francisco.
The customer's hunger for cheaper seats alone has encouraged airlines to cut almost everything out of flying except the jet engines.
In fact, there is a wide gap between the skill sets required for flying a fighter jet and those for a commercial aircraft.
Typically, successful applicants have significant qualifications in engineering or science, or extensive experience flying high-performance jet-aircraft.
Halo is, in short, the videoconferencing equivalent of flying in the corporate jet.
As money poured into FIIK, Bias spent lavishly to woo new backers, flying them on his Falcon jet to resorts in Mexico.
In any case, the failure of one engine would be unlikely of itself to cause a crash, as a modern jet could keep flying with its second engine alone.
Nancy Salzman, Raniere's business partner and NXIVM's president, is using the apartment, says one source, and two sources report that Salzman is flying around in a private jet owned by the sisters.
Last year Indagare ( indagare.com ), a members-only travel club, launched a collection of 12 intimate, luxurious group tours, including a family voluntourism trip to Nicaragua and a New Zealand golfing excursion that involved flying around on a private jet.
But as auditions came to an end at 22:45 GMT, Cowell heard about Mr Hagenstede's predicament and invited him to join him on the private jet that was flying him and fellow judges Alesha Dixon and David Walliams to Luton airport.
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Industry insiders believe the military jet teams will be flying again next year, but there's no guarantee from the military or Congress.
Tales about bankers racing each other from Wall Street to the beach - with one enterprising weekender beating a helicopter-owning colleague by flying overhead in his Gulfstream business jet and parachuting out at the right moment - are thought to be mostly apocryphal.
The notice said the jet was in "perfect flying condition" and can fly a range of 4, 500 nautical miles (8, 380 km) non-stop.
According to older pilots, this useless statistic came into favour at the time of conversion to jet aeroplanes when the impact of flying over the weather, rather than through it, was novel.
Flying at subsonic speed, the needle-nosed jet flew without passengers on Saturday from a military air base in Istres, near Marseille, and landed at Paris' Orly Airport.
At Jet Advisors, I tell my clients that flying privately is more expensive than the airlines.
In fact, the only new jet under 10, 000 pounds that is flying is the Mustang from incumbent Cessna Aircraft, which has made more than 5, 000 jets since its first Citation rolled off the assembly line in 1969.
And after flying all night, I am up way too early because of jet lag.
Both BA and KLM, after all, had direct experience of what flying through volcanic ash can do to a high-bypass turbofan jet engine.
"We're used to low-flying jets around here, " said George Pilkington, who saw the jet fly over his truck.
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Sure, you don't need to waste fuel flying around an empty airliner, but even the company's small jet can burn through quite a bit of cash.
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Had today's computer-controlled jet engines been around then, Munson would likely be alive and flying today.
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