Washington (CNN) -- A pilot in Minnesota who was preparing to fly a commercial jet halfway across the country was arrested after a security agent smelled alcohol on him and he failed a preliminary breath test, airport police said Friday.
The resources required of the air-traffic control and airport system to fly a chief executive in his jet are the same required to fly a 767 full of passengers.
Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.
Thierry Henry, having chartered a private jet to fly back from a family holiday in the USA for the match, converted Lee Dixon's cross to the delight of the home fans.
It is a very easy plane to fly, yet it is as stable as a larger jet.
That was until it got to be so much to handle that late in the evening that Saturday night, he lined up a personal jet to fly to Chicago and get the boys himself.
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Months later I had recovered enough to fly a test model of the Eclipse 500 jet in the skies over Albuquerque and climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Steve Forbes.
"It's the Monte Carlo of the Balkans, " says Alain Bourdin, chief financial officer of the Korston Group, which has set up a jet chartering service to fly wealthy Russians to its casino in Montenegro during the week and weekends.
To really see the impact of regional airlines these days, just fly the longest flight in miles on a regional jet in the U.S. That's a 1, 501-mile United flight between Austin, Texas and San Francisco, which takes about four hours going west into the wind.
The Mustang is an easy plane to fly, yet it is as stable as a larger jet.
The Fly Delta app for iPad features a "Glass Bottom Jet, " through which customers will have the ability to view the ground below in a unique way that includes maps, social networks and internet content while connected to the Internet on any of Delta's more than 800 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.
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To cover that retreat, the company trumpeted its Sonic Cruiser, a futuristic 250-seater jet that would fly close to the speed of sound and clip hours off long-haul flights.
The notice said the jet was in "perfect flying condition" and can fly a range of 4, 500 nautical miles (8, 380 km) non-stop.
It has had to meet a stringent set of regulations to ensure the jet can still fly safely in the event one of its two engines fail.
Then they realized people would have to fly without the reassuring blur of propellers turning and dropped the jet engine like a hot potato.
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It would be akin to spending billions to research and build a new fighter jet and then realizing that we have no fuel to fly it.
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The west Londoners were intending to fly to the northern German city by private jet on Wednesday morning before taking part in a training session at Hamburg's ground.
This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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And, of course, that is jet fuel that is going to be so important as the A-10s come here to fly.
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