His decision to testify and "admit" that he was to pilot a plane into the White House comes off as a teenage boast by someone who was never as important as he felt he should be.
It's the first model to feature an interface powered by the PS2's Graphics Synthesizer and Emotion Engine chips, too, and comes with a clamshell, joystick-equipped remote control that looks like you could use it to pilot a plane and solve complex equations while you watch.
If a pilot wants to bring a plane down, he or she can probably do it with bare hands, and certainly without weapons.
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"I wouldn't want to see a pilot turning up to fly a plane in shorts and flip-flops, and patients don't want to see a doctor dressed in the kind of thing he or she might wear down to the pub, " says Professor Colin Brown, a retired renal consultant from Sheffield.
While the Air Force based its decision on cost, aviation experts say there are advantages to a surveillance plane with a pilot in the cockpit.
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If there is a mechanical problem with a plane, or a pilot is sick, then chances are the flight will be canceled.
It is much harder for a pilot to achieve a soft landing if the plane is unevenly loaded even more so when the main engine appears to be overheating.
Smith-Barry, on the other hand, loved delighting - and frightening - onlookers with incredible aerial antics, and he soon earned a reputation as a pilot who was not afraid to push a plane to its limits.
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He was discovered in the jump seat behind the pilot on a US Airways plane on Wednesday evening, an officer said.
One camera provides the pilot a few from the plane, while another, on the belly of the gadget, is used to help keep the plane steady.
The pilot of a Cessna Citation plane preparing to land at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank suffered "vision impairment that lasted for hours" after the incident, according to a statement from the Office of the United States Attorney Central District of California.
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Amer El-Maati, an Al Qaeda member and a licensed pilot is believed to have discussed hijacking a plane in Canada and flying it into a building into the United States.
An economy without goal, with no pilot in the cockpit of a crashing plane whose name is Tunisia.
He said air traffic control contacted the pilot after noticing an unusual manoeuvre minutes after take-off and the pilot said his plane had hit a vulture.
The pilot of a First World War replica plane who was killed when it crashed at a Hampshire airfield was a 68-year-old man from Horsham in West Sussex.
Having an exploration itch himself, Karlgaard became a small-plane pilot, promptly putting his new skills to use traveling around the country to see this latest generation of pioneers firsthand.
The jockey has suffered his share of traumas, missing the 2000 Royal Ascot meeting as he recovered from injuries sustained in a plane crash which killed the pilot.
Stressing that it was too soon to speculate about the cause of Wednesday's crash, he said the pilot appeared to have control of the plane a long way down its approach to the airport.
"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
As a precaution, the pilot starts turning the huge plane in circles to see what the targets do.
He speculated about what might have happened to Flight 1549 after it collided with the geese if the plane had been controlled by a remote pilot.
After flying over Israeli territory for 15 minutes, and with still no response from the pilot, the Israeli army shot the plane down on a beach just north of the town of Netanya, said Hanna.
Bush arrived at the huge carrier off the California coast on a Navy plane, sitting in the co-pilot's seat.
In 2001, a Chinese pilot died and the 24 members of the spy plane's crew were held for 11 days.
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Smidt then called 911, and a dispatcher told pilot and passenger to get out of the plane in life vests before it sank.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on its radio station that the pilot was Stefan Nikolian, and he was flying a civilian training plane.
Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, said a pocketknife can be just as deadly as a box cutter, like the ones the hijackers used.
Rob Reale of New York City started a Facebook group soon after the crash for the "Fans of Sully Sullenberger -- and the crew of Flight 1549" to celebrate the pilot who is being hailed as a hero for deftly landing the plane.
The Iron Maiden frontman, 52, who holds a commercial pilot's licence, will captain the Astraeus Airlines plane from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
After this week's violence Thai Airways suspended a pilot who refused to carry parliamentarians from the ruling party on his plane.
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