Every jet start-up has suffered.

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One of the aircraft's two batteries was replaced in October after it failed to start the jet's engines, the battery's primary function.

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Boeing will also face competition from Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, which is a state-backed firm developing its own commercial jet and expecting to start deliveries to customers from 2016.

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If you like Jeff Buckley and Joni Mitchell, start with her album Jet.

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Mr Obama dearly wants the Senate to ratify his new START treaty with Russia, but as he prepared to jet out again for high diplomacy in Europe, the Republicans indicated that he would not get that in the lame-duck session, if at all.

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She decided that with the buzz on Twitter, she could start organizing a group of fellow all-you-can-jet travelers, calling it the 599club.

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African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.

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And if the problem does finally turn out to be a fundamental issue with lithium-ion batteries, other manufacturers will start to have problems, too: Airbus uses similar batteries on their A380 superjumbo jet.

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For a start, Mr Tamogami, it transpires, took Mr Motoya for a joy-ride in a fighter jet.

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