And they settled on a single plane type because they save money and make it much less likely that passengers sit around waiting for spare parts.
Currently, airlines complain that they have to test each model of device individually, on every single plane in the fleet, and with a separate empty flight used for each test, before they're allowed to relax the rules for that model.
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He was there in the motorcade, driving to Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, when press secretary Ari Fleischer first got a "page" on his pager -- "Back then, we didn't have BlackBerrys, " said Draper -- alerting the White House that a single plane had hit the World Trade Center.
In 2002 the SR22 passed the Cessna 172 as the world's bestselling single-engine plane.
The delicate, single-seat plane cruises around 40 miles per hour and can't fly through clouds.
Squadron leader Steve Long is the first RAF pilot to fly the single-seat plane.
In the 1980s he took up flying but crashed his single-engine plane and suffered temporary amnesia.
The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
It said the Next Generation 737 was "the most fuel-efficient and reliable" single-aisle plane in the market.
The delicate, single-seat plane cruises around 40 mph and can't fly through clouds.
The Wright brothers proved otherwise on December 17th 1903, making a series of short flights in a flimsy, single-propeller plane.
She remembers flying with him in his single-engine plane across the Iowa border to check out crops, even though he didn't own them.
He called 911 and they followed the police dispatcher's order to get out of the sinking single-engine plane, then "everything went blank, " Smidt said.
During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.
The golf-course plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, was flying west at an altitude of 3, 500 feet when the second plane, also a Cessna 172, approached from the east after leaving Santa Monica Airport for a test flight.
To pay for his living expenses, he has sold his beloved single-engine Cessna 210 plane and his car.
The Sukhoi SU-35 is a single seat super maneuverable, acrobatic fighter plane.
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After weeks of anxiously checking the mail for job offers and plane tickets, I received a single reply, from a professor at Berkeley.
Within a year Travelport hopes to give every single flight a carbon rating, taking into account the plane, the type of fuel used, and other data points.
The software will also allow Boeing to simulate the way the plane will be assembled in the factory before a single piece of machinery is purchased.
It claims that the cost of a mobile phone call has fallen by 70% since the single market came into operation, and the cost of a plane ticket has fallen by 40%.
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The single-person aircraft came from Switzerland and has made history as a solar-powered plane that could fly overnight, thanks to batteries that are charged up during the day.
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In December it was disclosed that Iraq would be allowed to acquire 36 single-engine Lockheed Martin F-16s and that Oman would double its fleet of the same plane to 24 aircraft.
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Researchers at MIT, led by Dr Mark Drela and tasked by NASA, have come up with a double-wide design: instead of the traditional single cylindrical body, two partial cylinders are joined together with three engines at the back of the plane between the double tail.
The plane took off from Slidell, Louisiana, en route to Sarasota, Florida, with a single pilot on board.
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