The A380 will become the world's biggest passenger jet when it enters service in 2006.
Meanwhile, Airbus has scrapped plans to use the batteries in its A350 passenger jet.
It added that the company intended to "build components for a new small passenger jet".
In another guise, the virtual organisation could be an industrial consortium developing, say, a passenger jet.
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Within a few moments, a passenger jet powered by four Rolls Royce engines had become a glider.
But today, we understand a Middle East Airlines passenger jet, which is Lebanon's national carrier, will arrive from Jordan.
The massive bays are owned by a passenger jet repair company called Aeroman.
The 1990s Global Hawk was the size of a small passenger jet.
The British-made Comet, the world's first passenger jet, flew in 1952, before designers at de Havilland Aircraft Ltd. fully understood metal fatigue.
It said this included 12 A380s -- the world's largest passenger jet.
From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries.
Although Mitsubishi has not yet announced plans for a full-size passenger jet, such a project is well known in Japan to be in the works.
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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.
The mock-up has steel seats in typical coach, business- and first-class layouts on both decks plus replicas of the 555-passenger jet's staircases and cargo containers.
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Passenger Jet Hilton from Crawfordsville, Indiana, has relied on her sense of humor to get through the ordeal, her sister Jennifer Stanfield told CNN affiliate WTHR.
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Mr Calder said statistically air travel was "fantastically safe" and said the Boeing 737 had proved itself to be the "most successful passenger jet ever flown".
Delta suffered another major embarrassment this week when a Delta pilot landed a passenger jet on a taxiway at Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport instead of the runway.
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Solar Impulse has the wingspan of a passenger jet such as Airbus A340, yet at just over 3, 500 pounds, it weighs about the same as a sedan.
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The 787 Dreamliner is the biggest innovation in commercial aviation since the Boeing 707 introduced the world to passenger jet travel more than 50 years ago.
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.
Meeting schedules and building on this sales base is critical if the company (and, by extension Japan) is going to be a player in the small scale passenger jet industry.
Singapore Airlines said it will buy 30 Boeing 787-10X aircraft, the third variant of the plane maker's newest and most technologically advanced passenger jet, subject to Boeing formally launching the model.
Wandering among the turbines, we passed some Ping-Pong tables, where a competition was under way, and stopped in front of a shiny white dome that looked like the nose of a passenger jet.
While aeronautic design has come far since the advent of the passenger jet plane, making them lighter and more efficient, many designers feel that we've gone about as far as we can go with cigar-shaped fuselages and under-wing engines.
The three-passenger jet--it seats four aft of the cockpit, but air-taxi operators such as DayJet are opting for three passenger seats--is fast enough to fit with the jumbo jets at O'Hare and slow enough to slip into the pattern with Pipers and Bonanzas at tiny general aviation airports.
The three-passenger jet--it seats four aft of the cockpit, but air taxi operators such as DayJet are going with three passenger seats--is fast enough to fit with the jumbo jets at O'Hare and slow enough to slip into the pattern with Pipers and Bonanzas at tiny general aviation airports.
Boeing's biggest challenge is going to be maintaining profit margins in the passenger-jet business at much lower levels of production.
In 2000, U.S. airlines burned 28.6 gallons of jet fuel per passenger, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
There is no single study that compares jet fuel use for passenger flights versus air freight shipping.
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