The Eclipse is the new world champ of slow jet flight--cruising, descending or landing.
He was arrested in the United States in August after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator.
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.
Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the September 11 attacks after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator at a flight school.
It immediately conjured up thoughts of Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater who grabbed a beer, popped the emergency chute and made his own dramatic exit while on the job.
Fifty-three passengers were scheduled to be on board the Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet for the flight.
To some it might have seemed at odds with the new era of the atom bomb and jet-powered flight.
He found that the aircrew given the shorter period to "turn around" after a jet-lagging flight had an area of the brain called the temporal lobe which was noticeably smaller than the others.
If successful, the X-47B would claim two firsts for an unmanned jet: in-flight fueling capability, and launch and landing aboard Navy aircraft carriers.
After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.
No one denies that volcanic ash can cause jet engines to fail in flight.
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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.
This happens to be the noisiest phase of the flight, when the jet is at a full-power climb.
Let's say you took one domestic flight on a commercial jet every day.
He was soon assigned to an all-jet squadron, making his first flight in an F9F-2B Panther on January 5, 1951.
NetJets allows individuals or companies to buy as little as a one-eighth interest in a business jet aircraft, depending on the flight hours needed.
"In a worst-case scenario, you could eject from a fighter jet, " says senior CAL flight instructor Chou Yu-sen, who once trained F-104 and T33 combat pilots.
This suggested that the private jet had strayed from its original flight plan, but, in statements to police, the pilots said they had been authorised to fly at that height.
The flight path asset allocation model resembles the flight path of a fighter jet.
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The data trove includes flight logs from the Falcon jet used by Cope and Bias and evidence of their profligate spending habits.
Permanent damage, however, may occur among jet-setters and frequent travelers like flight attendants, who have been found to experience higher instances of memory loss, diabetes and heart disease.
Based on prosecutors' argument that the former jet-setting IMF boss was a flight risk, the judge set stringent bail conditions, placing Mr Strauss-Kahn under house arrest with an armed guard.
But on Sunday the National Transportation Safety Board completed its examination of flight recorder data from the jet that caught fire in Boston, and determined that the affected battery did not exceed its designed voltage.
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Having the three Henderson brothers has obviously helped attract a lot of attention to the team, but I was amazed to see all the cameras and newspaper reporters waiting to see 24 jet-lagged athletes step off the flight.
The jet had the same designation -- Flight 253 -- as the one on which a Nigerian man is accused of attempting to set off an explosive device Friday, said Scott Wintner, a spokesman for the Wayne County Airport Authority.
So GE brags about the terabyte of data that flows out of a single jet engine on a single cross-country flight.
Airsafe.com, a not-for-profit venture that compiles airline-safety statistics, notes only four cases in which a flight crew intentionally landed a commercial jet into a body of water.
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Japanese officials said flight data from a Boeing 787 jet that made an emergency landing has shown no evidence that its battery was overcharged, a finding that dovetails with a U.S. probe.
"I think ... both the attorney general and I and the attorney general of Pennsylvania have indicated we believe those passengers on this jet were absolute heroes and their actions during the flight were heroic, " Mueller said.
He also makes a hand-printed sign with the passenger's name and then drives to the gate of the inbound flight, parking at the bottom of the jet-bridge stairs.
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