Shoffner died in 2006, and Lewis bought the plane from the Shoffner family the next year and spent millions more to dispatch her and a handful of escorts on a re-enactment of her fateful trip, launching from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, circling the Statue of Liberty and heading up the Eastern Seaboard, over Greenland and on to England, with refueling stops along the way.

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If you had CV-22 type technology, could have been done with a single in-and-out pass -- albeit with helicopter refueling with C-130 type assets -- moving directly into the objective area, and then being able to extract during that, again, single period of darkness.

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For example, the 10, 000 mile range of the B-2 (with one refueling) allows it to execute missions worldwide from just three strategically located bases.

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In addition to the Mount Whitney, U.S. ships under Odyssey Dawn included the Kearsarge and Ponce and the guided-missile destroyers USS Stout and USS Barry, along with logistics and refueling ships.

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But the economics of NGVs are becoming more compelling for taxis, vans and buses that are centrally fueled with limited ranges, and for trucks with established routes where refueling stations can be built every 300-400 miles.

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He said they could last for 30 years without refueling, compared with 18 months for larger commercial reactors.

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"It's not our long-term solution because of the competition with feed, and fuel competition, but it is prompting us to put into place a refueling infrastructure that could be used with cellulosic ethanol, " made from other types of plant material such as timber waste or switch grass.

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Convenient refueling accessibility, along with vehicle lifecycle economy and choice, are prerequisite for success.

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Nevertheless, home refueling is the way to go with natural gas.

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Investigators found that, in all, 13 boats with alphabetically sequenced names had coordinated activities at sea, including transshipment of fish, refueling, and changing of crew and provisions, to evade boat-specific limits on catch.

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