Airlines say they police their cleaning crews and often require two people to work a plane at the same time.
By way of comparison, West Germany is spending approximately as much for its own work on an aerospace plane.
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While we've certainly put a crick or two in our necks after a long work session on an plane, the story strikes us as being classic scare-journalism: although a lot of frightening statistics are trotted out, no published research is cited and the two main sources quoted are chiropractors.
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Renovation work is underway on a plane which used to carry in excess of 350 passengers.
In 1960, at the age of 58, Bill began work on a small jet plane, which revolutionized American business travel.
He finds a quirky girlfriend (Zooey Deschanel), gets promoted at work, learns to fly a plane and to speak Korean, and makes lots of new friends.
No more than Delta can expect that their new plane from Boeing will work forever without their own internal resources keeping it maintained and operating the right way.
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Plane manufacturers and airline operators work closely with the FAA on better procedures and passenger safety.
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Boeing is likely to seek approval from its board as soon as next month to sell a new version of the company's 777 jetliner, following years of work to upgrade its best-selling plane.
His only public comment has been three brief written statements expressing confidence the plane is safe and promising to work with regulators to find out and address what went wrong.
Right up to the end, he could travel long distances around the globe, get off the plane and go freshly and enthusiastically to work.
The corporate chief simply pushes his "automatic flight mode" and the plane will glide nicely as the mass will work hard to set the course.
Distractions, such as having someone to talk to on the plane or focusing on an engrossing book, can also work to ease the tension.
Its service can work out at 25% cheaper than Concorde, if a small group shares a plane.
When the first plane hit on September 11, 2001, I was at Lehman Brothers, at work on the 20th floor of the World Financial Center.
Aaron Jesse, 47, said he had left work early for a round with friends at Westlake Golf Course and saw the low-flying plane hit a tree, spin around 180 degrees and land surprisingly gently.
If you want to close the deal, then get on a plane, get in the same room and let the face-to-face magic work for you.
But for a solar eternal plane to be exactly that it needs an efficient energy harvesting, conversion and storage system that will work when the Sun has set.
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Walking through the hangar of the final assembly line and catching a glimpse of one of the 1, 500 engineers that work there, it's almost as if the Airbus headquarters was in Lilliput, taking care of the plane that Gulliver could have traveled in.
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