But it sucked for everyone else, for whom an airplane flight was a rare luxury.
He was three years old the first time Orville Wright took the first ever flight in an airplane and barely a teenager when World War I broke out.
On October 30, 1935, at Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio, the U.S. Army Air Corps held a flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build its next-generation long-range bomber.
Some overlapping flights likely will be chopped, or combined into one flight with a larger airplane.
Analyst Graham Cluley of Sophos Security said it's unclear how devastating Teso's find would be if unleashed on an airplane in flight.
The procession traveled to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, where she was carried aboard an airplane for the flight to Houston.
"What a great privilege to be at the controls of such a great airplane on its first flight, " said Feuerstein.
In addition, the airplane's combined flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were also sent to the NTSB for analysis.
The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.
Observing pigeons in flight inspired the Wright Brothers to build an airplane.
During winters in the state of Alaska and Pacific northwest, the cost of operations rose significantly due to additional expenditure on airplane de-icing, frequent flight cancellations and accommodation costs of displaced passengers.
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There is one thing for certain, though: There is plenty of pent-up demand from flight schools, flying clubs, individual buyers, airplane partnerships and those who would like to have reasonable aircraft rental rates.
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Instead of a sleepy flight heading west into the dark of night, the airplane was soon buzzing.
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Items found in the same area Saturday were confirmed to have come from the jet, including pieces of the aircraft's wing section, luggage and a leather briefcase containing an airplane ticket with a reservation code for the doomed flight, Brazilian air force spokesman Jorge Amaral said.
They even arrested Richard Floyd McCoy for a similar airplane hijacking and escape five months after Cooper's flight, but McCoy was ruled out as a suspect in the Flight 305 hijacking because he didn't match the physical description.
Improve access to airline websites, check-in kiosks, in-flight entertainment centers, audio-visual displays, medical oxygen, and airplane bathrooms.
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Deep Flight Aviator's wings, viewed in cross section, look exactly like an airplane's, upside-down: They're curved on the bottom, flat on top.
Airplane to Italy, trains from city to city, and then a flight out.
On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel.
"What businesspeople need and want on their way to their airplane is speed, reliability, and en-route access to their email and current flight status information, " said Carter Stewart, an aviation consultant who travels on average 500, 000 miles (800, 000 kilometers) per year.
The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.
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Or in-flight flight, which grants its bearer the ability to fly like a bird, but only within the confines of an airplane.
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