Many people use a float to wind down or to get over jet-lag -- as a deeply relaxing float has much in common with a deep sleep.
"It's basically a week, so we've got to get over there, get over jet lag and get some practice in to make sure we're ready to come next Thursday, " he said.
Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
In September, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest, causing the passenger jet to crash, killing 154 people.
And in June, Syrian anti-aircraft fire brought down a Turkish military reconnaissance jet over the Mediterranean Sea.
The crash came less than a year after 154 people were killed in the September collision of a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 with a small jet over the Amazon rainforest.
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He asked Treasury Secretary Paulson to call the Russian authorities to let him fly his private jet over their airspace to return to the US and face the expanding crisis.
In 1996, nearly 350 people were killed when two aircraft, one a Boeing 747 operated by Saudia collided with a Kazakh cargo jet over India, in the worst incident in Indian aviation.
"We're used to low-flying jets around here, " said George Pilkington, who saw the jet fly over his truck.
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They then turned the pages upside down and wrote over the ancient text in jet-black ink.
The jet blew up over the Irish Sea en route from Canada to London.
After a few minutes they decided it was safe to return to their homes, but then they heard a roar like a jet aircraft approaching over the ocean.
Barack Obama gave a 53-minute interview over breakfast aboard a chartered jet that took him to Chicago, and he described to these New York Times reporters that he is going to get tough, that he's going to come down from his tower, as he's been not wanting to engage in mudslinging.
He is looking over his shoulder at where he has been while the jet-propelled vehicle he is riding takes him forward, right over a cliff.
Months later I had recovered enough to fly a test model of the Eclipse 500 jet in the skies over Albuquerque and climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Steve Forbes.
The design of jet engines has progressed over the decades, but has been stuck for many years in a plateau where efficiency gains have flattened out to only .5% a year.
The search for evidence from the Pan Am jet, which exploded over Lockerbie, was exhaustive but from it investigators found scraps of clothes and tiny bits of the bomb and its casing.
He wore an infamous, jet-black comb-over and, usually, a scowl.
This creates a jet of hot air which passes over an airfoil-shaped ramp channelling its direction.
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That's because high petroleum prices (higher, at any rate, than they were a few years ago) depress demand for gasoline and jet fuel and thus the markup over raw material costs that a refiner can capture.
Cirrus has delivered nearly 5, 000 piston airplanes over the last decade, and now has a jet under development.
According to older pilots, this useless statistic came into favour at the time of conversion to jet aeroplanes when the impact of flying over the weather, rather than through it, was novel.
Ms Lee-Chun's show is Spinello Gallery's contribution to PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, one of the many satellite fairs that take place this week alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, a monster exhibition that draws galleries from all over the world to network, mingle with the jet-set, and, vitally, to sell art.
As both jet fuel prices and average weight have increased over the last few decades, airlines are largely stuck paying the price.
The navy intends that, by 2020, half the fuel it uses (over six billion litres a year, mainly diesel and jet fuel) will be from renewable sources.
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Just over a decade ago, Brazilian firm Embraer entered the business jet market with phenomenal success.
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Pilots of jet planes have fallen asleep on duty in or over London twice in three years.
Airbus and Boeing, the world's leading big-jet manufacturers, both expect freighter fleets to double over that period.
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