• An operation was being mounted to contain and clean-up the spill, including skimmers, booms to contain the oil and aeroplanes to drop dispersants on it.

    BBC: Tackling oil rig disaster 'number one priority' - Obama

  • Mr Bruno claims he did some state business on those trips, which thanks to a convenient loophole means the use of state helicopters and aeroplanes could be permitted.

    ECONOMIST: Feuding politicians are not helping political gridlock

  • These offices, set up over the past 15 years, deploy artillery, rocket-launchers and aeroplanes to seed clouds with chemicals (usually silver iodide) that encourage droplets to form and fall where needed, or prevent the formation of destructive hailstones.

    ECONOMIST: But it pours awards on the weather-fixers

  • Studies have compared all the different types of observations (including surface weather stations, balloons and aeroplanes, etc) ingested in weather models and found that Metop data makes the largest contribution to the accuracy of 24-hour lookahead, at around 25%.

    BBC: When 'state of the art' is also years old

  • Many foreign firms, of course, are doing well in China, especially at the two extremes of the value chain: things like luxury goods, fibre-optic cable and big aeroplanes on the one hand, and oil, ores and recyclable waste on the other.

    ECONOMIST: Selling foreign goods in China

  • It spelled out its goal to receive orders for between 600 and 650 aeroplanes this year.

    BBC: Airbus delays A350 XWB entry as EADS profits triple

  • During the four-and-a-half months of the infamous battle, the corps lost 499 airmen and 782 aeroplanes - a third of its total force.

    BBC: Robert Smith-Barry: The man who taught the world to fly

  • Stuart Bailey runs a family business building boats and replica aeroplanes.

    BBC: Norfolk

  • Speaking with CNN's Richard Quest, Henkel chief Kasper Rorsted says the company's products are the glue that hold everyday goods together, from iPads to sneakers and even aeroplanes.

    CNN: Henkel: Reaping rewards of its revamp

  • This will allow the virtual display to show things such as weather and other aeroplanes, further increasing the pilot's awareness when it is too foggy or dark to see outside.

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • The company makes parts for aeroplanes and its clients include Bombardier, Thales and BE Aeorspace.

    BBC: Arlene Foster and Damian McArdle

  • For now, aeroplanes and rotors are not slathered routinely with temperature-and pressure-sensitive paints because their sensitivity needs to be improved.

    ECONOMIST: Pressure paints

  • Yes, it is aeroplanes and yes, that can be a bit geeky but I defy you to not to be impressed by the pictures.

    BBC: Enviropedia website

  • The governor's wife, Janet, who has a taste for jumping out of aeroplanes and shooting rattlesnakes, can easily keep an eye on the renovation job.

    ECONOMIST: The governor goes mobile

  • It claims that it is merely benefiting customers willing to enter into long-term deals by giving them discounted aeroplanes and a favoured place in the queue for delivery when the industry is booming (as it is now).

    ECONOMIST: Brussels v Boeing

  • Talking and texting via mobile phone is common on aeroplanes flying over Europe, Asia and the Middle East, where technological and regulatory hurdles have been overcome.

    BBC: In brief: American Airlines grounds more 757s

  • Daimler is Germany's biggest industrial group, making aeroplanes, trucks and train equipment as well as cars.

    BBC: News | The Company File | Daimler roars ahead

  • By the second world war it had grown into Japan's second zaibatsu (after Mitsui) and diversified into everything from aeroplanes to beer.

    ECONOMIST: Mitsubishi

  • As navy chief he would have also been able to provide protection as the drugs were directed to "European markets through a variety of different routes including private aeroplanes up to and including camel trains across the Sahel and into areas where they could cross the Mediterranean", he added.

    BBC: Guinea-Bissau ex-navy chief in 'drugs arrest'

  • Carbon fibre is replacing steel and aluminium in products ranging from aeroplanes to mountain bikes.

    ECONOMIST: Manufacturing

  • Certainly, spending on luxuries such as boats, aeroplanes, expensive cars and jewellery has soared during the past five years.

    ECONOMIST: Wealthy and wise?

  • And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.

    ECONOMIST: Pushing the envelope

  • Aeroplanes cost billions to develop and are designed to last a generation.

    ECONOMIST: For their next trick

  • The meeting on Monday night was held at Breachwood Green, where it is claimed aeroplanes can be heard taking off and landing.

    BBC: Say No to Luton Expansion

  • Mr Cameron is discovering that aeroplanes cause almost as much noise and disruption to the incumbent in Downing Street as they do to the residents of west London.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of Heathrow

  • This is because the borrowed money was used to buy aeroplanes, which are easy to sell and tend to retain their value in dollars.

    ECONOMIST: Korean Air

  • With 3.3 billion flights expected to be made by individual travellers in 2014 and the growing challenge of climate change, green aeroplanes can't take off soon enough.

    BBC: The futurist: Will green aeroplanes take off?

  • Light aeroplanes at Cardiff International Airport were turned over and pushed around while planes at airports around the UK were grounded, stranding thousands of passengers.

    BBC: Thousands without power after storms

  • And it lucidly explains the reason why pilots of small aeroplanes understand that they are riskier than big ones yet accept the risks, believing that most can be controlled.

    ECONOMIST: Air travel

  • Boeing has signed three such deals since the merger with three big American carriers, Delta, Continental and American Airlines all of them hitherto big users of McDonnell Douglas aeroplanes.

    ECONOMIST: Brussels v Boeing

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