At that point, the captain of the Air Canada jet and the C-17 pilots flashed their planes' landing lights at each other to acknowledge their position.
Early indications are that the Lion Air jet's approach was normal until perhaps the last minutes of the flight, said safety experts who have reviewed publicly available data.
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Since 2005, only a handful of serious accidents followed pilots landing short of a runway, all of which involved regional airliners with fewer seats than the Lion Air jet.
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Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
As quickly as that, the C-17 passed underneath the Air Canada jumbo jet with 103 people on board.
With a focus on profits rather than revenues, the company intentionally limits the hours in the air for each jet.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
If a camera detects a blemish on a chip, it sends a signal to one of the airhoses under the conveyor, and a jet of air blows the chip off onto the floor.
If the production line were kept open to make stripped-down versions of the stealth jet for Japan, the Air Force might try to buy some more of them for itself in the future.
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The company has shipped its jet fuel to the Air Force, which has tested it in A-10 aircraft.
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Dubbed Air Sarko One, the new jet features a double bedroom, an air-conditioned smoking room and an anti-missile system.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
Most famous of these, of course is Air Force One, the official jet transport -- though actually there are two Air Force Ones, both modified Boeing 747-400s -- of the President of the United States of America.
Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
The smell of jet fuel was evident in the air, yet that didn't stop hundreds and hundreds of people from congregating around the crash site.
The hope of air taxis is to bring the price of jet charters down to the executive masses.
This is the so-called jet stream, the fast river of air that helps drive our weather, which interacts with the storm's updrafts to create a spinning column of air.
Much of the Pentagon's fuel goes to the air force, however, and reducing the consumption of jet fuel is much more difficult.
The jet itself moves air effectively like a set of lungs.
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Fischer-Tropsch derived fuels for aviation have been produced recently for the Department of Defense by U.S. based Syntroleum, and have been successfully tested by the US Air Force in a B-52 jet with all eight of its engines fueled by the mixture.
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You can say the same for the automobile, the radio, the telephone and telegraph, jet air travel.
Imagine if the Air Force had decided in the early 1950s that it would protect jet engine secrets.
Napolitano has said there was no air marshal assigned to the Northwest jet.
Once the jet engine allowed mass air travel, pampering and soothing stopped and the whiff of romance became an advertising copywriter's fiction.
In 1953, jet flight experts were struggling to understand why a number of Comet airliners had inexplicably crashed, throwing the entire prospect of commercial jet air travel into doubt.
As the wine passes through the funnel, air sucks into the holes making a sound like a very small jet engine.
The hiatus in air travel could be a rehearsal for a post-jet age if the peak oil theory is correct and we are facing a future with insufficient fuel to put into planes.
His private jet is often in the air before the parking lot is empty, with four days before the next week's cycle.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) jet engines today are 40 percent more fuel-efficient than those designed in the 1960s, with pollutants such as soot and sulphur now almost completely eliminated from jet exhaust.
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They are also some 80% quieter because the mass of slower-moving air shrouds the noisy hot gases coming from the rear of the jet.
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