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The other test aircraft already had the system, so we decided we should install it on the other one.

The possibility of friendly fire, I say the possibility, did not come from the air. It was not about bombs. So we are now investigating where this possible friendly fire came from, but it was not from an aircraft of any type.

We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading into it. If approved by the president and Congress, this can only be viewed as an expansion of the missions to be conducted out of the new joint base in the future.

Geoff Hoon

We are aware of reports that the aircraft may have been shot down, but we are not in a position to come to any conclusions until the investigation is complete,

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

Unless it was going to impact on when the aircraft was going to be available ... then I wouldn't expect to be told about it,

We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fighter and bomber aircraft on 48 hours notice, if the need should arise.

We face a complex logistical challenge with at least 100 aircraft and 1,000 flying crew out of position. As a result, it will take some time to return to a normal flying program. We recognize how frustrating this must be, but we are working as hard as we can to get customers away on their holidays.

We experienced a job slowdown, causing a high number of aircraft to be out of service.

We feel that we're in a good position, that this will make us a stronger airline, ... We'll be able to clean up our financial status with regard to balance sheets and aircraft that are too expensive to fly, and emerge as a stronger, more viable competitor on the East Coast, where most of our flights are operating.

We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.

With these aircraft they will fly up into the remote regions that have been most devastated by the recent disaster.

When the size of the aircraft orders is so big, the economics of the engine prices being offered by GE would've been a key factor in determining the orders.

The plane is so destroyed there's really not much left to be able to see or to determine exactly what kind of aircraft it was. It's just a horrible sight.

Steve Williams

There are times you're not going to have aircraft available because of limited funding or lack of crews,

Eric Christian Olsen

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

Since the order books at Boeing are bulging at the moment, with many of those orders coming from abroad, aircraft exports could continue to be a big positive for the trade deficit for some time to come.

Singapore is an important airline. It's really the gateway to aircraft sales in Asia. But at end of the day, one company with 10 aircraft is not going to make or break any program.

Marion Blakey

The FAA is maintaining safety by determining that aircraft are properly equipped and authorized before they're allowed to fly at these high altitudes,

Last year's boom in aircraft orders, which reached record levels, suggests that a cyclical bust is not far behind.

She told me the aircraft was not coming back, to watch what we said, to be very careful to whom we spoke and not to trust anyone.

This would mean a lot of business opportunities from this region for aircraft manufacturers in the coming years.

Billy Mitchell

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

The Raptor not only combines the capabilities of several legacy aircraft by delivering air dominance, lethal intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but it does so without adversaries even knowing the aircraft is out there -- as proven this past year. As the world's only 5th Generation fighter aircraft in operation, it has overwhelming capability to ensure USAF air dominance for the next four decades.

Mike Brown

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We are putting in as many aircraft as we can, but as fast as we open up seats, the faster they get booked. I have never seen anything like this. We couldn't be happier.

We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.

We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We want people to experience the aircraft and hopefully the word of mouth will translate into more passengers.

There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.

What we know is there were more than 40 people on board, that the aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area.

Irene Khan

The onus is on (aviation) companies to ensure that they are aware of the end use of any aircraft they lease or operate.