Are we going to aggressively cross international boundaries, either with aircraft or on the ground, to pursue them?
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Honeywell executives, who haven't previously discussed the project publicly, say the system uses onboard computers and navigation devices to automatically control aircraft movements on the ground.
The fuel cells could be used as auxiliary power units to produce electricity when an aircraft is on the ground, for example, allowing its engines to be turned off.
In a second category A case, which was reported recently by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, a departing BAe 146 aircraft almost collided on the ground with an arriving two-seater Piper aircraft at Birmingham airport.
Once the aircraft was safely on the ground it was found one of the cargo doors had opened in flight, causing the depressurisation.
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She saw the crew had been thrown from the aircraft - they were on the ground.
Now Airbus is looking beyond aircraft design to how the aircraft is operated both on the ground and in the air.
Because of their arrangements with travel agents, NC4 can locate any employee, whether they are on an aircraft, using ground transportation, rail, or at their hotel.
With commercial crash rates in the U.S. at record low levels, safety experts see the biggest remaining accident risks while aircraft wheels are still on the ground.
After our lunch, at one of his favourite West London restaurants, he is off for more X-rays on the cracked ribs he suffered when the aircraft he was in plummeted to the ground on polling day.
The ground-based system offered by Gogo, which connects a Wi-Fi hot spot installed in a jet to one of 135 antennas Gogo has on the ground in North America, has been running on commercial aircraft since 2008.
In the final days - as we shall learn - Nato used drones, bombers, helicopters, electronic interference and special forces on the ground "painting" targets for the attack aircraft as the rebels closed in on the capital, Tripoli.
During this week, at the Paris Air Show, Mitsubishi Aircraft and Boeing Corp. signed an agreement under which Boeing ground crews will provide maintenance support for MRJ aircraft on a global basis.
Data come from multiple sources on board aircraft, in case one fails, and multiple computers run together on the ground to provide backup.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University have estimated the impact on the ground of emissions from aircraft flying at cruise altitude (about 35, 000 feet), a problem typically ignored by regulations.
The mechanism of EMI causing failures seems plausible, logical, and reasonable until you consider the energies involved in portable devices, the lack of on the ground EMI incidences in aircraft, and the lack of EMI incidences in other vehicles.
An engine failed during tests on the ground in South Carolina last July and inspectors found a similar problem on another aircraft in September.
An engine failed during tests on the ground in South Carolina in July 2012 and inspectors found a similar problem on another aircraft in September.
Police said the aircraft at Exeter was on final approach, low to the ground and over the city.
To cut spending on military hardware or increase it, to build more F-22 fighter planes and aircraft carriers, or spend more on unmanned drones and beefed-up ground forces.
With intuitive, menu-driven features, the Aircell Smartphone allows passengers to place and receive voice calls aboard business aircraft as easily and conveniently as they do with mobile phones on the ground.
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If aircraft are so susceptible to EMI then we should see more incidents on the ground than in the air.
While a probable cause for the accident will not be known for months or longer, investigators will certainly be looking at what caused the aircraft to apparently stall and plummet to the ground, killing all seven on board.
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The aircraft cabin is shielded to prevent handsets from making contact with base-stations on the ground.
In Bosnia the UK declined to create what the foreign secretary at the time called a, "level killing field", and in Libya it also decided not to send weapons even though RAF aircraft were bombing government forces and British Special Forces were (eventually) put on the ground.
Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - Nato has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of 25, 000 to 40, 000 troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets such as helicopters, transport aircraft, maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and much more.
Regulators in the U.S. and Japan, along with engineers at Boeing, have been trying to figure out what caused fires on several Dreamliners, forcing the FAA and other agencies to ground all the operating aircraft indefinitely.
But on this occasion the procedures at least appear to have worked and the aircraft was safely returned to the ground.
For example, organizations such as AERObridge and others ensured that companies and entrepreneurs wanting to offer aircraft for relief missions were effectively coordinated with those offering supplies for delivery and the people in need on the ground.
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