There were also doubts about the future of such a big plane if, as rival Boeing Co predicted, air traffic shifted towards routes between smaller airports rather than big hubs.
The Air Force, until strong-armed by a few legislators, rightly did not want as big a plane as the KC-30 for the simple reason that it is far better to have a larger number of smaller, more fuel-efficient aircraft capable of operating from many airfields.
An airborne sensor designed to seek out hostile emitters was canceled after the contractor failed to pick a plane big enough to carry the equipment.
For the first time since entering the race, he has leased a plane big enough to shuttle reporters from one stop to the next as he tries to breathe new life into his shoestring campaign.
For the first time in the airline's history, business class saw higher percentages of seats filled than coach, said Singapore spokesman James Boyd, so the airline switched to a luxurious all-business-class configuration, with 100 lie-flat beds on a plane big enough to carry more than 300 passengers.
The plane represented a big bet on new technology for Boeing: The plane's lightweight frame was to be built using mostly carbon-fiber composites, and it was to have an enhanced electrical system to power more systems and use less fuel than other jets.
By acquiring Grumman, it got into the big JointStars aerial surveillance plane contract.
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The passengers clapped as they took off on a big gray air force plane headed for the capital, Santiago, which has troubles of its own.
Anyway, Donald Trump just took possession of his big, used Boeing 757 plane.
He saw two Big East assistant coaches on a plane while recruiting, and they cautioned him about installing a motion offense.
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Removing weight from a plane is a very big deal indeed.
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Mr. Ice founded his firm in 2008 to focus on consumer bankruptcy, after a career at big law firms defending companies against plane-crash and SUV-rollover suits.
But we have to strive to have our discourse played out on a plane that does the discussion of our big problems justice.
The intended market is city pairs (like Seattle-Paris) big enough to support nonstop service with a smallish jet but not big enough to fill a giant long-distance plane like the Boeing 747 or upcoming Airbus A380.
He was only 15 when, the night after Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that 1959 Iowa charter-plane crash, he was recruited to somehow help make the show go on at the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Most Texans will remember that Waylon was supposed to be with Buddy on his last plane ride, along with Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.
AeroVironment's remote-control attack plane may be small, but it represents a big shift taking place in the U.S. military: Today's defense robotics are more focused on killing and less dependent on humans than ever before.
This old meets new world in Makkah no doubt is a whole new world for many of the pilgrims, some of them from far-flung villages where many haven't even been on a plane before, let alone had a McDonald's Big Mac.
"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation, " said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
Eventually, the plane cuts through a notch above Princess Royal Island, takes a big bank turn toward Barnard Harbour, and--boom!
When peat-bog fires blanketed Moscow and other big cities with acrid smoke in 2010, he took the controls of a firefighting plane on national TV.
Lucid2 by LG features a compact, stylish design that makes it easy to grip and is equipped with a big, bright 4.3-inch qHD Advanced High Performance (AH) In-Plane-Switching (IPS) display that enhances the viewing experience for watching videos, reading eBooks and browsing the web in stunning clarity and natural color.
Advice for the commuter-plane maker: If you want a piece of the action, you might want to think big.
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