Honda spent 20 years developing its new jet plane after nearly abandoning the idea early on.
In 1960, at the age of 58, Bill began work on a small jet plane, which revolutionized American business travel.
Unlike a jet plane, the shuttle has a fragile heat shield that can be easily damaged by rain or lightening.
The next thing for me is flying a jet plane like the Dassault Falcon 2000, which Ratan Tata flies.
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Understanding the brain, Allen argues, is much like a being a medieval blacksmith trying to reverse engineer a jet plane.
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True, after taking a jet plane across the Atlantic, a businessman who flew in first class feels better than one who flew in coach.
Michael Massaroli, 38, was working for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 101st floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001, when a jet plane slammed into the floors beneath him.
While aeronautic design has come far since the advent of the passenger jet plane, making them lighter and more efficient, many designers feel that we've gone about as far as we can go with cigar-shaped fuselages and under-wing engines.
Some of the eight masked assailants stood in front of the Helvetic Airways jet plane with machine guns, pointing laser sights at the pilots inside the cockpit while others forced ground staff to open the plane's cargo doors, according to Belgian prosecutors and other people familiar with the events.
By contrast, a jet fighter plane travels at speeds of Mach 1 to Mach 2, and the Space Shuttle blasts into space at Mach 25.
China complained that Osborn landed the plane on Chinese territory without permission -- and accused the American plane of veering into the Chinese jet.
Powered by six 747 jet engines, the plane will require a 12, 000ft runway for takeoffs and landings.
He uses his own private jet, pilots the plane himself, picks the patient up at their local airport, and flies them from anywhere in the Northeast for cancer treatments in Boston, MA, for example, or burn treatments in Springfield, MO.
It has struggled with the sluggish business jet market more than other plane makers.
That plane was carrying the 21 men and three women who had been detained by China for 11 days after their U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet collided.
The Sentinel spy plane is a modified business jet which uses radar to create accurate real-time images of what is happening on the ground, and was used in Libya during the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi.
At least one of the suspected hijackers who intentionally crashed a passenger jet September 11 purchased his plane ticket from a travel agent in a northern New Jersey town near where the alleged ringleader of the attacks was spotted this summer.
Aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman is developing an unmanned combat jet the size of a fighter plane.
Airbus was beginning to eat into Boeing's market with its A320 single-aisle jet the sort of plane that accounts for four out of five planes sold.
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Boeing has described many issues as routine for a new plane, and the company maintains the jet is reliable.
One U.S. official said details of the U.S. plane's collision with a Chinese fighter jet were discussed, but did not elaborate.
That airliner crashed in a field after passengers fought back against four hijackers who were steering the plane toward Washington -- the fourth commercial jet destroyed that morning in 2001.
The Jet Lock is a device that clamps around a plane's landing wheel, completely immobilizing it.
The test jet I flew had no autopilot to keep the plane smooth in turbulence.
On the plane to Singapore I watched the Jackie Chan and Jet Li film The Forbidden Kingdom.
Boeing is again using Catia software for much of the structural design of its new 7E7 jet, but it is using Thinkid for the plane's cabin plans because of the software's flexibility in making changes.
In 2001, Chinese security forces grounded an American EP-3 surveillance plane on the island after it collided with a Chinese jet fighter.
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Robert Duarte, an expert on some instruments in the jet, questioned evidence by defense attorneys who claimed the plane's speed was slower than what prosecutors contend.
Singapore Airlines said it will buy 30 Boeing 787-10X aircraft, the third variant of the plane maker's newest and most technologically advanced passenger jet, subject to Boeing formally launching the model.
And the fireman never responded, but the guy in front of us said that if it had been a passenger plane" -- meaning a full-size jet like the one that had, in fact, crashed into the building -- "we'd all be down.
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