Barry writes ProFootballMock (the name is a takeoff on the popular ProFootballTalk.com) in his spare time.
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The DC-9 crashed shortly after takeoff on a Miami to Atlanta flight, killing all 110 people aboard.
Another Japan Airlines' 787 in Boston had to scrap a takeoff on Tuesday due to a fuel leak.
In the Pixar extravaganza, "The Incredibles, " the tiny costume designer Edna Mode, a takeoff on Hollywood's legendary Edith Head, laments: "I used to design for gods!"
An official at China Eastern said the carrier launched emergency procedures after a flight from Lanzhou to Xi'an received a threat shortly after takeoff on Wednesday morning.
The advert is a takeoff on the children's story Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which Cattrall infiltrates the locker room of a football team and tries three colas they have left behind.
With mounting physical evidence only telling them what it wasn't, air crash investigators were left to analyze the various ways a 747, after an uneventful takeoff on a clear summer night, could crash so horribly.
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AC4 also borrows from recent Ubisoft highlight Far Cry 3, with Kenway battling sharks below water while diving for booty (a takeoff on the hunting found in that game, as well as in the last AC entry).
" After hanging up, McCain chided his aides: "Look, if John's not in on the takeoff of this thing, he won't want in on the landing.
American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on takeoff from O'Hare and killed 273 people.
The US-based environmental organisation also offers smart travel tips, such as avoiding layovers as most carbon emissions occur on takeoff and landing.
Investigators believe that a metal strip lying on the runway at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport gashed one of the Concorde's tires on takeoff.
In 2003, the issue of passenger weight surfaced when a commuter plane crashed on takeoff from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of excess weight and a maintenance error.
You won't twirl the car like a top, but at the same time it is possible to slide the back end out a tad, and to spin the tires on takeoff.
Much more than a cosmetic enhancement for visual appeal, they increase lift, reduce drag and lower stall speed, which translates to a considerable performance boost on takeoff, climb, cruise and landing.
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Besides, they say, if you weren't with us on the takeoff, you don't deserve to be there for the landing.
They come on right after takeoff!
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On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel.
Feet on the brakes, I followed John's instructions to bring the power up to takeoff level, my cue being a computer display on the panel.
The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials.
The flight attendants at Continental Airlines are on board and preparing for takeoff.
Flying from Zurich, Bachchan tolerated a late takeoff along with all the other passengers on the mostly full British Airways jet.
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In 1972, a BEA Trident crashed minutes after takeoff from London Airport, killing all 118 on board.
The Sky Warrior's automatic takeoff and landing system can put a plane on a runway "plus or minus one foot, " says one Department of Defense official who asked not to be named.
These winglets, which Cessna says increase fuel efficiency and takeoff and landing performance at higher elevations and on hot days, were previously available as an aftermarket option on the Citation X but come as standard on the new model.
Further, Test and Evaluation officials discovered a handful of cracks on the right wing and right engine of the U.S. Air Force F-35A version, as well as multiple cracks on the bulkhead flange of the Marine short takeoff F-35B version.
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And the real estate market takeoff can obscure what is still a thicket of arcane regulations on development.
The jet was bound for Tokyo on January 8 when a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel just before takeoff.
After all, the strains on a jumbo jet turbine are far greater: 400 takeoff and landing cycles in a year, massive swings in thrust and temperature, sucking in unfiltered air.
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