You can say the same for the automobile, the radio, the telephone and telegraph, jet air travel.
In 1953, jet flight experts were struggling to understand why a number of Comet airliners had inexplicably crashed, throwing the entire prospect of commercial jet air travel into doubt.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
If a camera detects a blemish on a chip, it sends a signal to one of the airhoses under the conveyor, and a jet of air blows the chip off onto the floor.
In 1978, an Air India jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Bombay, killing 213.
This creates a jet of hot air which passes over an airfoil-shaped ramp channelling its direction.
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The minister also said that a promised merger announced last month between two private domestic carriers, Jet Airways and Air Sahara , would be permitted.
The jet itself moves air effectively like a set of lungs.
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Early indications are that the Lion Air jet's approach was normal until perhaps the last minutes of the flight, said safety experts who have reviewed publicly available data.
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Since 2005, only a handful of serious accidents followed pilots landing short of a runway, all of which involved regional airliners with fewer seats than the Lion Air jet.
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That's because it's now possible to take part in private jet timeshares through companies like Trans-Exec Air Service and Marquis Jet.
Dubbed Air Sarko One, the new jet features a double bedroom, an air-conditioned smoking room and an anti-missile system.
Finally, our Royal Air Force jet was ready to take us to our destination.
The company has shipped its jet fuel to the Air Force, which has tested it in A-10 aircraft.
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Once the jet engine allowed mass air travel, pampering and soothing stopped and the whiff of romance became an advertising copywriter's fiction.
At that point, the captain of the Air Canada jet and the C-17 pilots flashed their planes' landing lights at each other to acknowledge their position.
On most jet aircraft, hot air from the engines is routed through piping in the wings, tail and engine openings to heat their surfaces and prevent icing.
Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
Most famous of these, of course is Air Force One, the official jet transport -- though actually there are two Air Force Ones, both modified Boeing 747-400s -- of the President of the United States of America.
As quickly as that, the C-17 passed underneath the Air Canada jumbo jet with 103 people on board.
With a focus on profits rather than revenues, the company intentionally limits the hours in the air for each jet.
His private jet is often in the air before the parking lot is empty, with four days before the next week's cycle.
In jet aircraft, purifying cabin air would save on fuel needed to compress fresh air bled from the engine to ventilate the cabin.
If the production line were kept open to make stripped-down versions of the stealth jet for Japan, the Air Force might try to buy some more of them for itself in the future.
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The Jet Lock was launched at an air-security conference the Federal Aviation Administration held Nov. 27 in Atlantic City, N.
Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
The smell of jet fuel was evident in the air, yet that didn't stop hundreds and hundreds of people from congregating around the crash site.
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, better known as COMAC, announced it had received 50 orders for its C919 passenger jet at the recently concluded Zhuhai air show.
If the second foot has more speed than the first, the dancer looks like he is buoyantly moving up even as he is landing like a jet with its nose in the air as it is landing.
Executives attribute the drop-off to rising jet fuel prices, combined with declining air travel.
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