Independently, Nextant Aerospace saw enormous possibilities in the old bird, and twelve months ago, their brainchild took off to become the best performing Hawker 400 to date: the Nextant 400XT.
The effect of falling for the old bird-in-the-bush gambit was predictable (and predicted): They are never as good, cheap or readily available as we are told they will be.
The Brooklyn-based band Falcon doesn't take its name from the bird, but rather from an old friend of bandmates Shannon Ferguson and Neil Rosen.
The characters for which he wrote, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, the Old Geezers, Oscar the Grouch and so on, are splendid parodies of people.
Indeed, since it was ringed as an adult, and Manx shearwaters take four years to reach that exulted status, it must have been significantly over half a century old when researchers at the Copeland Bird Observatory in Northern Ireland checked its bona fides.
On my first morning at the ranch I meet Robbie Arnold, a laid-back, sunburned 27 year-old who will be my bird guide for the day.
Who, after all, could imagine the likes of Dickie Bird - an old-fashioned Yorkshireman, if ever there was one - emerging from a an ICC conference in Cape Town armed with a laptop computer, as the eight elite umpires did last March.
After studying the Northumberland bird's plumage on hours of videotape and a number of photographs, experts decided the bird was less than one year old.
Trevor Roche, 52, was killed when the 1923 De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird crashed at Old Warden Aerodrome, near Biggleswade, last July.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post says there is still hope in battling the deadly bird flu as a 67-year-old man in Hangzhou and a four-year-old boy in Shanghai are both recovering from the virus.
From the Old City to Tel Aviv is just 34 miles as the bird flies but a fast-forward in time: There, high-tech rules, and the walkway along the Mediterranean Sea is packed with young Israeli professionals and their families.
One week ago, a 27-year-old woman from eastern China died of bird flu, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The family is an 87-year-old man who died from bird flu on 4 March, along with one of his sons who died of pneumonia who tested negative for the virus.
In addition, the World Health Organization said a two-year-old girl in northern China had tested positive for bird flu.
On January 18, 2009, a 27-year-old woman from eastern China died of bird flu, Chinese authorities said, making her the second person to die from the deadly virus at that time.
Mr Ondaatje has filled the house with the collection of Sri Lankan antiquities he had begun as a schoolboy old maps and prints of Colombo, talipot palm-leaf manuscripts, bird paintings from the Calcutta school, pre-colonial furniture, betel-nut cutters, swords, knives and firearms.
The six-year-old pigeon was retired in 2009 after breaking a wing, but Kerry Mellonby from Bridlington kept the bird for breeding before deciding to sell.
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