This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation.

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She will be honored Monday, Memorial Day, by the American Airpower Museum on Long Island as part of "Operation Celestial Flight, " a national program that seeks to pay tribute to all 38 WASPs who died during the war.

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During the ninety-minute helicopter flight, James and his teammates rehearsed the operation in their heads.

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This helps BE Aerospace's highly profitable cabin interior and seating operation, leveraging prospective gains in fasteners and flight consumables.

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"We've got just short of 500 people now signed up to go, which is actually more people than have been up to space in the history of space travel, and we hope to put those up in our first year of operation, " he says, predicting the first commercial flight by "about next Christmas, " although he acknowledges that there have been many delays.

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Flight controllers in Houston worked furiously to get ready for Saturday's operation, completing all the required preparation in under 48 hours.

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Filton Airport had been in operation for more than 100 years and saw the first UK test flight of the Concorde prototype in 1969.

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Filton was in operation for more than 100 years and was the site of the first UK test flight of the Concorde prototype in 1969.

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