In other words, the odds of a successful attack with a model plane that would cause any significant damage appears to be pretty low.
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"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel, " said Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year.
"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel, " said Atlanta-based businessman Bobby Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year.
Better to know the model you are using, if only to understand its limitations, than to kid yourself you have moved to a deeper, model-free plane.
By using social tools and lightweight Web apps, travel companies have moved toward a model that lets consumers experience their trips before setting foot in a plane and use discovery rather than search to make their trip, their trip, not a trip.
If a model overestimates the lift around an aircraft's wing, then the actual plane might not get off the ground.
This is a special type of Earth model which traces its idealised "horizontal" surface - the plane on which, at any point, the pull of gravity is perpendicular to it.
There are a number of airlines where the entire business model is driven by reducing the amount of time the plane spends on the ground.
In another model being pushed by incumbents in the in-flight entertainment business, airlines install a plane-wide content-streaming system with an array of movies, TV shows, games and other content, generally alongside broader Internet access.
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Currently, airlines complain that they have to test each model of device individually, on every single plane in the fleet, and with a separate empty flight used for each test, before they're allowed to relax the rules for that model.
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