Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.
Many U.S. airlines announced surcharges or rate hikes in recent days, as they cut their projections for capacity growths, or the number of seats offered on a plane.
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On a number of occasions he got off a plane, sent his bags home with a cabbie and walked the distance (the hike from JFK took six hours).
Cypriot Transport Minister Haris Thrassou has denied reports of 48 children being aboard the plane, telling Reuters the number of people below the age of 20 was "between 15 and 20".
The number of visitors arriving in Vegas by plane in March 2009 was down nearly 12 percent from March 2008, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
In October 2007, Alwaleed ordered a test flight version of the A380: Serial number 002, essentially a second hand plane, which one source said was about 23, 000 pounds heavier than the current version of the plane.
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To that end, the program would ask passengers to supply their name, address, phone number and date of birth upon purchasing a plane ticket.
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She said an unknown number of women and children fell from the plane and the shock caused two pregnant women to miscarry their unborn children.
It was an "exceptional" inquiry because of the scale of the disaster, the number of countries involved and the difficulty of locating the plane's data recorders, he said.
In some cases, Delta is reducing the number of flights per day but increasing the size of the plane, bucking conventional airline wisdom that held business travelers preferred schedules with very frequent flights.
According to industry estimates, a nearly full 757, operating with fewer flight attendants, can be more profitable than a larger plane such as the Boeing 767 carrying the same number of passengers but more attendants.
There are obviously a number of complicated logistics involved with moving Air Force One, moving a plane of reporters, events, local stops, phone calls involved.
Chinese government ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands, and in recent weeks Japanese fighters have been scrambled on a number of occasions after what Japan called an airspace violation by a Chinese government plane late last year.
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"The fact that the plane landed on a soft surface and that there was no fire helped keep the number of fatalities low, " he said.
There are a number of airlines where the entire business model is driven by reducing the amount of time the plane spends on the ground.
His connections with the Company had begun in 1955 on the plane home from fighting in Korea, when he was given a name and a number to call by a man who then disappeared.
The Navy insists that it supports the plan of record for the Lockheed Martin plane, but it has already restructured the program once and now is studying whether the number of F-35s in carrier air wings should be cut due to cost constraints.
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Having been to Manhattan a number of times on business, I figured that either the news was completely fabricated or a sight-seeing plane had strayed into some building near New York.
The Air Force, until strong-armed by a few legislators, rightly did not want as big a plane as the KC-30 for the simple reason that it is far better to have a larger number of smaller, more fuel-efficient aircraft capable of operating from many airfields.
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