The safety record of solo pilots in single-engine planes is not great.

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And if deploying that higher-priced plane presents a more credible deterrent to potential aggressors that dissuades them from making war, then its cost advantage over less capable planes is incalculably great.

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Some 200 of these have gone ashore to assist the Nigerians, and America has made a great show of its might this month with fighter planes swooping over Monrovia.

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Ms. WEBSTER: I moved to Detroit in 1999, and it's hard to believe, but in that year, all the workers got 8, 000 dollars bonuses at Ford, and they actually had planes flying around town thanking workers for their great contribution.

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Their retro-fitted private planes loop from the city of Arusha to the smudged bush airstrips found in the northern circuit of great game-watching national parks.

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The great virtue of carriers, say the admirals, is versatility: last March Sea Harriers from Illustrious escorted allied reconnaissance planes over Southern Iraq.

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Accessible via privately chartered plane from Vancouver to Bella Bella with a transfer to float planes for the final leg, King Pacific Lodge is in the middle of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest.

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