The boss of Boeing's civil-jet business, Alan Mulally, is even toying with the idea of turning up in person.
It says key evidence may reside at Boeing's commercial-jet operations there.
Donatella Versace is synonymous with over-the-top prints and unabashed sexiness, fitting for her brand's Miami jet-set look.
Had today's computer-controlled jet engines been around then, Munson would likely be alive and flying today.
Had today's computer-controlled jet engines been around in 1979, Munson would likely be alive and flying today.
Airbus and Boeing, the world's leading big-jet manufacturers, both expect freighter fleets to double over that period.
If there is a silver lining, it is that Boeing's non-civil jet business now accounts for 40% of sales.
The nerves that activate a squid's jet-propelled escape mechanism have particularly big axons, allowing signals to travel at great speed.
They still smack of the Manhattan-style modern buildings that have been popping up in nearby downtown Brooklyn ever since developers have realized that many of the city's well-heeled jet set live across the East River.
Home Dialysis Plus in Portland, Oregon has an all-in-one dialysis machine that is half the weight of NxStage's and uses ink-jet technology from Hewlett-Packard to continuously mix small amounts of dialysis solution on the fly.
Home Dialysis Plus in Portland, Ore. has an all-in-one dialysis machine that is half the weight of NxStage's and uses ink-jet technology from Hewlett-Packard to continuously mix small amounts of dialysis solution on the fly.
Recent weeks have also seen renewed hostilities over funding for the development of Airbus's new super-jumbo jet, the A3XX .
It was May 1, 2003 when President George W. Bush made his dramatic landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, arriving in the passenger seat of a Lockheed S-3 Viking fighter jet.
But it's not because there's a proliferation of jet-setting billionaire tax dodgers these days.
So if R-Jet's technology can prove itself, it might provide another leap forward.
In its defence review in 2010, the coalition announced that it was cancelling the previous Labour government's decision to purchase jump-jet version of the Joint Strike Fighter (the F35-B) and opt instead for the catapult and trap (F35-C) type, which required a different set-up on deck.
With one-fifth of the U.S. passenger fleet already grounded, used-jet prices are down 40% to 80%.
The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.
Better yet is the jet's 330-knot economy cruise speed, attained at altitudes between 38, 000 and 41, 000 feet.
Well, that's more than 2, 000 movers and shakers, and it's been crashed recently by jet-setters and rock stars and movie actors.
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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For example, an attempt to bring down Zia's jet with a surface-to-air missile in 1982 is bungled because the would-be assassin has never used the weapon before.
An Epson ink-jet printer's connector fit, but 3Com's marketers don't mention that Bluetooth behaves like a serial port rather than a parallel one, making installation difficult and keeping many printers from reporting things like the status of ink cartridges or paper jams.
The White House expects a major battle with lawmakers from both parties over Defense Secretary Robert Gates's effort to overhaul defense-procurement policies and cut short production on the F-22 advanced fighter jet and the Army's Future Combat System.
All of this is grist to the mill of Boeing, reeling from Airbus's coup in grabbing half the civil-jet market last year.
It said this included 12 A380s -- the world's largest passenger jet.
Lamborghini isn't exaggerating when it likens the interior to a jet fighter's cockpit -- the pilot gets a heads-up display as a matter of course, and has to climb over the car body just to crawl inside.
Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.
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