The Dreamliner is the first private jet to use a lithium battery, according to Tsutomu Nishijima, a press officer for GS Yuasa.
It is the first commercial jet built mostly from carbon-plastic fibres rather than conventional aluminium and steel, making it more lightweight, and therefore, fuel-efficient.
That streak marked the first time in the jet age that two consecutive years passed without a death in a commercial airline crash.
While the Challenger 300 was not the first super-midsize jet, it has dominated the category since it was first delivered in 2004.
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One of the sponsors of my Albuquerque speech was Eclipse Aviation, which makes the world's first very light jet, the Eclipse 500.
The first night of the tour I arrived, jet-lagged and drained, at a stylish boutique hotel in a foreign town.
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At last year's Dubai Air Show, China demonstrated its L-15 trainer jet for the first time.
The British-made Comet, the world's first passenger jet, flew in 1952, before designers at de Havilland Aircraft Ltd. fully understood metal fatigue.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.
The Boeing 747 first flew in 1969, yet it still is the main jet carrying people across oceans.
The belief that some of them would like to has inspired Aerion, a firm based in Reno, Nevada, to devise the world's first supersonic business jet.
In the 1980s Amar Bose, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the audio company of that name, pulled off this trick for the first time by designing pilots' headphones that reduce the noise of jet engines.
The multi-part transaction being discussed for Jet Airways' sale to Etihad will first involve the transfer of all of Mr. Goyal's Tail Winds shares to a new company.
Save Concorde Group submitted plans last year to place the jet under cover for the first time in a decade.
Six months later he achieved his first jet carrier landing on the USS Essex which then set sail for Korea.
In 1974, the first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet occurred when a Lufthansa airliner crashed after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya, killing 59 people.
For those aboard the first cargo planes to arrive in Tuzla in the past year and a half, the first job will be the easiest - - transforming a base built for small jet fighters into one of the busiest military depots in the world.
Ideas of minimizing the noise of a jet as it passes through the sound barrier have been around since Concorde first deafened those living under its flight paths and beyond in 1976.
There's no question that the Cessna Mustang will be a first-rate jet in quality and safety.
His trademark work with unconventional fabrics like embellished denim and leather, mixed with wild animal prints and exotic patterns, was embraced by the jet set and Cavalli opened his first boutique in Saint Tropez in 1972.
As soon as Airbus announced it was to embark on a project to develop the first "super" jumbo in 2001, it received an order for a private variant of the jet (then known by its codename of A3XX) from a client in the Middle East.
If the second foot has more speed than the first, the dancer looks like he is buoyantly moving up even as he is landing like a jet with its nose in the air as it is landing.
Cephalon earlier this year tried to get its drug Nuvigil approved for treating jet lag, which would have made it the first drug for this use.
His current cinematic venture sees him paired with longtime friend Jet Li in "The Forbidden Kingdom" in their first movie collaboration.
To ease its entry into the market, R-Jet reckons OCN engines could be used first as generators to produce electricity or to power an unmanned drone.
True, after taking a jet plane across the Atlantic, a businessman who flew in first class feels better than one who flew in coach.
Simon Cowell came to the rescue of a father-to-be by giving him a lift home in his private jet so he could get to see the birth of his first child.
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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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Early Wednesday morning, a Russian Ilyushin II-76 Candid cargo jet sent its first batch of humanitarian aid to Japan, the Russian Emergencies Ministry, EMERCOM, said.
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