He long ago captured the heart of another man's girlfriend while tracing Charles Lindbergh's air route to Paris.
"When I decided to open a direct air route, my proposal was opposed by the military, " he told the visitors.
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson said the new route had been supported through the authority's air route development fund.
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On the French side, passengers avoiding the air route via Charles de Gaulle airport are now planted straight into the old vault-like Gare du Nord.
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Members of the army, navy and air force lined the procession route, with office workers hanging out windows in some places.
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That forced the U.S. to bring in supplies for troops by air and by a more expensive northern route through Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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The group's busiest airport, Inverness, which handled about half of all HIAL passengers, recorded growth of 0.5%, which the company attributed to an increase in international traffic due to the success of the city's Amsterdam route and the recently introduced Air France KLM code share.
Funding and plans for the rest of the route are still up in the air.
To some people, taking a drive along a gravelly, mountainside route thousands of meters in the air might sound like the stuff of nightmares.
There it will revive a route abandoned by British Airways when air travel fell off after the terrorist attacks in America in 2001.
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Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
The boat, called Route 66, cruised at more than 20 knots and frequently hit speeds in excess of 30 knots, or 55 kilometers an hour. (Note that America's Cup racers max out at 16 knots, and they're basically empty shells with nary a cushion to sit on.) Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
The idea is to introduce air travel on demand, using Web-based software to route small aircraft as needed.
En route, we also stopped at an open-air restaurant for grilled Mekong fish, one of the most pleasing staples of the Lao diet.
He is shipwrecked en route, emerging from the wreck with the bleary air of a groom awaking from a successful stag party.
Paul's on a procession route lined with British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel.
U.S. and British airstrikes have cut off the Taliban air supply routes to the north, leaving the Taliban only a long circular route through western Afghanistan to supply the north, Abdullah said.
Peach and Air Asia Japan have their sights not only on domestic flights but also on the route between Tokyo and Seoul, the nearest foreign capital.
Kumar launched a new ac train on that route with round-trip fares of 1, 600 rupees, and Air Deccan, which had been running at losses, was sold to another airline.
But correspondents say that the rebels seldom used the route because they knew it would make their forces vulnerable to land and air attacks by the army.
Paul's Cathedral along a route lined by servicemen and women from the army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
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The Air Balloon roundabout sits on a single carriageway section of the A417 between Swindon and Gloucester - a route which links the M4 and M5.
However, heavier, less urgent and low value per pound shipments will increasingly shift towards the sea route as companies thrive to manage their total distribution costs efficiently, which would limit the growth in air freight segment.
Air traffic control personnel "would have known immediately" of a crisis when the planes veered away from their normal route, according to Chris Yates, aviation security editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
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