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Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Early debris, early in the flight path, would be critical because that material would obviously be near the start of the events, ... It would clearly be very important to see the material earliest in the sequence.

Dr Young told me that the surgery was a success and I would be able to get back on my feet by Monday. In another eight weeks, I would be able to get back to business which means I should be able to catch the flight to England.

At this point in the countdown, it seems appropriate to say to the crew of Discovery -- good luck, have a safe flight and to say once again 'Godspeed John Glenn,'

At this point, they're ready for flight assignment. But the reality is they could spend years in technical assignments learning the ins and outs of spaceflight. Then there's another year of training specifically for that flight.

Doss Aviation will provide ground school and flight training, to include approximately 19 training flights, for students in preparation for undergraduate pilot training and undergraduate combat systems officer training.

Confidence is rising and risk-aversion is declining. Now we are seeing a huge flight from quality. That reflects the healing process and an improvement in investor psychology.

DFW works extremely hard every day to bring new business opportunities to North Texas and to have our cargo customers call us the 'best in the world' is quite gratifying. Cargo helps propel the North Texas economy, bringing in new jobs with the addition of new cargo service, new products on every flight and new opportunity for local and international businesses.

This year, in-flight activities such as on-time performance, the accessibility and courtesy of flight attendants and food quality and service have taken on greater importance to satisfaction than in previous years,

Easter breaks for many people will include short-haul trips, where alternative modes of transport are much more practical. Short-haul travel is particularly polluting because the take-off and landing segments, when most fuel is burnt, represent a large proportion of the flight plan.

TWA believes that the remains of Flight 800 should be treated like the remains of any other airplane crash and disposed of respectfully once the investigation is concluded.

We do not know how long it will take to defeat the scourge of terrorism or how many Americans will give their lives for the cause. But we do know one thing with absolute certainty: The passengers and crew of Flight 93 won the first battle,

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self

Every flight attendant in this country is more on edge than they were before 9/11.

Every flight is going to be at least three hours. Now every team has to take that trip to us. You don't feel the same after flying on a plane all day.

Every flight I've been on, there's something unexpected that happens. That's the nature of the business.

At the start of the season, our worst-case scenario was still to be fighting to retain top flight status at this stage of the season.

It would not give them the information they want. This dog will have been trained long for the task and subjected to similar simulated conditions, and this flight is just another experience of the same sort.

The whole time on the flight I'm thinking there is no possible way that this is going to work out. I'm glad I got through it because I was nervous as anything. I don't think I have been that nervous in a ball game every in my career.

The willingness of the flight attendants and passengers to get involved with this incident helped avert a potentially dangerous situation,

The winds are forecast to remain calm, so if we wait until tomorrow morning, the batteries will deplete, the relays and valves will go to the normally open condition. As the oxidizer warms up, the tank vents will open, removing the flight pressure. With the booster depressurized and batteries depleted, it will then be safe to approach the rocket.

They apparently were going out for an evening flight when they lost control of the aircraft, which rolled upside down as it landed in the house,

The government has asked that he be detained because he is either a flight risk or a danger to the community,

We're thankful that First Flight played some possession, but in that moment, we still have to continue to do our job of staying tight and pushing forward when the ball goes back.

As the recording began, the flight crew was discussing an existing problem with the airplane's stabilizer trim,

The Teterboro route has been very effective for us in terms of fulfilling flight requests for middle- to senior-management executives, ... And now with the White Plains route, we're able to capture Westchester County business travelers, as well as business people in towns such as Darien and Greenwich.

The success of the flight marks a significant improvement in the innovation capabilities of China's aviation industry and makes possible mass production of the plane.

The students will be doing more of the work. In the flight last year, students were doing the support, and the experts came in. This is going to be more of a Kansas State University at Salina project.

The successful GTV flight is a major milestone for APKWS II. Our previous successful ballistic test vehicle flights and the many tests that led up to these were all important, but here, we were trying to hit a target for the first time and we did it.

The successful launch of Shenzhou-6 represents another major step forward in China's manned space flight program,

It was absolutely a routine flight for a routine activity. The weather was fit for flying,

We made a 5-hour flight to get here (on Thursday), and now we have to make a 5-hour flight to get back (tomorrow). That's not the best way to get ready for a league game.

I've snuck up there and sat down a couple of times just to see what it feels like, I must admit, ... Would I like to have a chance to be in command of a flight sometime? Yes. But I think I am a little old for that.

The very essence of the EMS mission is saving lives. Operating an EMS flight in an unsafe environment just makes no sense.

It was very tough, but I was tired because I had problems with the flight and it took me 40 hours to get here from New York.

It was a little cutter, 163 yards from a difficult lie, a bit of a hook lie, and it happened to come off perfectly, ... I hit a lot of really good iron shots like that this week. I had a lot of confidence in my ball striking, with the driver and with the irons, and was able to maneuver the ball very well. The HX Tour Golf Ball is just so consistent in its flight characteristics, it let me get at some of the tough pins when I needed to, and I was rolling it well when I had the opportunities.

You have to think it was by design, that they didn't want to go on a flight with the chance of the passengers working against them. If you've got the threat of a bomb or a gun you can hold people at bay. These guys were strong-arming people with box cutters and knives. They wanted the numbers to be on their side.

We saw video of Flight 11 flying into the building at such a close range. It's video that I've never seen before and all of us agreed we have never seen it before. It just completely took me aback. It was almost as if you were sitting on the tail of the plane, looking left.

We feel like we have the bulk of these things in hand. Now less than a year away from return to flight we are focused on the difficult things. We are on track as we speak for an early 2005 launch.

With direct air connection to 91 U.S. and Canadian cities, we're just a 90-minute flight from 60 percent of the United States.

Women are more social in the way they cope with stress. Men are more likely to deal with stress with a fight or flight reaction. Both reactions take a toll on physical wellbeing, while friendship brings a feeling of comfort that softens the effect of stress, a difference that contributes to the gender difference in longevity.

The reasoning is, instead of taking it off-line for two years and spending a lot of money to return it to flight when it probably would fly only one time at the most, why spend that extra money, when you don't need to?

The reasoning is instead of taking it offline for two years and spending a lot of money to return it to flight when it probably would fly only one time at the most, why spend that extra money, when you don't need to?

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

To my knowledge, we've never turned down a flight to anyone who qualified.

There could be a continued lifting in bank stocks and that's a flight to quality. I think you will continue to see people going to the higher-quality, dividend-paying stocks, where they can get the yield that satisfies them.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

We have enough evidence to prove that it was the U.S. plane that violated flight rules by suddenly veering in a wide angle at the Chinese plane in normal flight, rammed into and damaged it, resulting in the loss of the Chinese pilot.

Books on travel are also good: the best being the kind of writing and pictures to inspire an escape or, at the very least, a flight of fancy.

Boeing continued on its flight plan in the third quarter. We won considerable new business, ... We are realizing significant performance improvement in production and are confident in our ability to deliver about 620 commercial airplanes this year.

Bonds clearly got a boost from the flight to safety. But looming on the horizon are the consumer and producer price reports and the CPI is going to be the most important,

We are very pleased with the continued flight test successes that validate the efforts of the Air Force and Lockheed Martin to improve quality and reliability, as we committed to Congress.

Strikes by either pilots or flight attendants would not be good for our customers, the company or our employees.

People for a long time had not been interested in the precious metals to any big degree, but now you have started to see them look at them once again as a flight to quality in terms of asset diversification.

I wanted my own little airliner in the backyard, ... I'd have my girlfriends use their Brownie uniforms to be the flight attendants, and I was the captain and they would have to pretend they were serving people.

Reaching this milestone is an incredible accomplishment for the entire C-17 team. And hitting one million flight hours more than a year ahead of the original plan is a testament to the aircraft and our customers' confidence in it.

Northwest flight attendants are looking for a strong voice to support them during this difficult time. Right now the Northwest flight attendants are facing the most turbulent time of their careers and they are doing so without a safety net.

Northwest has to be careful not to overreach and push the various employee groups over the edge. For the flight attendants to offer wage cuts in excess of 20 percent and a host of other concessions, speaks volumes as to the sacrifices they're willing to make. Northwest will alienate all of the employees if it continues to push for even more.

Fifty years from now, people will look back upon a Pan American Clipper flight of today as the most romantic voyage of history.

Two things are driving our investigation, ... We want to know the ignition source on TWA Flight 800. Secondly, we want to know what steps need to be taken to prevent an accident like this from recurring in the future.

But looking long term, we must restructure in order to be a viable business. Our flight attendants are highly valued and they have continued to demonstrate a great level of professionalism in front of our customers, and we sincerely appreciate that.

Both our flight schedule and our bookings look like a typical Thursday in September,

We are excited to see UPS demonstrating the flexibility of our Electronic Flight Bag by using proven technology for innovative and ground-breaking applications. UPS is a model customer for the Electronic Flight Bag, and its reputation as a leader in both technology and financial rigor represents a strong stamp of approval.

One common mistake that people make is they think that they're checked-in for the flight if they've simply checked their bags and that's not always the case.

Space flight is years from being routine, or even a mode of transportation per se. Transportation refers to reaching a desired destination. Space flight, for the foreseeable future, will be an end in itself.

So we're going to try to keep it in as near flight ready condition as we can without putting it through an OMDP so we can use those parts. Quite frankly, people are already calling us and asking us can they display one of our orbiters in their museum after we're done with it. I'm not giving anybody anything until we're all agreed the station is complete and the shuttle's job is done. In the sense that we're talking about mothballing, I'm not sure that's the term I'd use.

Some folks like to get awayTake a holiday from the neighborhoodHop a flight to Miami BeachOr to HollywoodBut I'm talking a GreyhoundOn the Hudson River LineI'm in a New York state of mind.

Nowhere can a person find greater solitude than alone in flight

Dear Chief: I had a feeling that at the very close of today's Conference we may have fitted Matthew Arnold's closing lines in 'Dover Beach' wherein he refers to those 'Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night.'

Delta, they will not book us on their flight because we don't have our luggage; Northwest won't give us our luggage, that plane left.

During my flight to Chile, I was thinking about our pilot, and we don't know where he is, and our plane is at the bottom of the ocean,

Col. Broughton was actually supposed to be in that airplane. He was supposed to fly that plane that morning and got called out to a meeting within 15 minutes of the time the flight was supposed to take off, and asked my father to fill in for him.

CNN is proud of its people and they were doing the right thing in providing coverage of the departure of the freed U.S. flight crew.

Austin, again as you know, isn't typically a winter wonderland, much less an ice rink, so the de-icing equipment and fluid is not the same as say, Detroit. To put it in perspective, we used more de-icing fluid on your flight than we did for the entire year at (Austin) in 2004.

A social worker said she was working on an angel flight for them, ... (Angel flights) have been used for medical transports, like for kids who need medical treatment and are too far away from it ... The other options we were looking at, like driving or on a bus, Bob would've chanced getting another infection, and he can't afford (one).

As of this morning the company has not changed its demands the flight attendants accept cuts.

Bad weather is expected all week up and down the East Coast, with concomitant flight delays and hassles, so if you don't have to be out there in the slop, stay home.

Alicia has had a fantastic season. To place fifth in Flight 1 singles is an outstanding achievement. We look forward to watching Alicia compete in the future. She's only going to get tougher and improve her game.

Alicia played outstanding singles today. Her strategy combined with her execution of points played a major role in her success against both Hettinger and Bloomberg. To play for an ESD championship in flight one is quite an accomplishment.

That's why I came. I wanted to come and feel their heart. Now I can feel more comfortable about taking a flight to Carolina and trying to win a football game for these fans.

That's how bad it got. I walked up a flight of stairs and was out of breath, and I had to sit down for a while.

That was a challenge to them. First Flight and any team that Ray coaches, they battle and stay in there with it, and we talked to told them when they came in that it was time for us to make a statement about ourselves, that we need to push a run or two across, of course we got several.

A lot of our customers also fly New York to London. If you look at the flight time, it's about the same.

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Prosecutors are seeking for Thompson to remain in detention pending trial because they consider him a danger to the community and a flight risk.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter

Ten years of planning and seven years of flight operations were realized early this morning when we successfully picked up our return capsule off of the desert floor in Utah.

Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.

Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa.

Flight attendants are trained to evacuate within 90 seconds -- all passengers off. It's been tested, it's been drilled. Obviously something went right with this crew.

Even Cathay expects to have its flight pretty much back in the air at the end of next month. And I suspect airlines in general will be reducing the level of discounts over the next month or so.

Even if Delta pilots don't strike and something is worked out with the flight attendants, there's still a long road ahead to get out of bankruptcy. There are still a lot of bullets to be dodged.

The result seemed to reflect a flight to quality in the light of what is happening in the stock market rather than a value judgement.

There's no turning back. It was halfway around the world when I found the fuel problem, ... Not only might the flight not have finished, but I might have gotten the plane stuck somewhere.

While flight delays certainly occur all year long, winter weather can increase their likelihood.

The only thing we can say definitively is that the passengers aboard that flight were heroes,

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, ... recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

We attribute that to the voluntary FAA flight caps that were put into place last year.

We just have to see what damage is done physically, ... but mentally I'm very proud of the boys. I have a long flight to think what we can do tactically. It's in our hands, but I expect Uruguay to come to Sydney to defend - and they are a team which knows how to defend.