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It's pretty clear that all the pieces for capital spending are in place, including rising sales, lower inventories and increases in shipments and orders, ... So, despite what CEOs say in public, there's no question that capital spending -- outside of aircraft and telecommunications -- has bottomed and is on the way up.

The noise level we're looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports ... below traffic noise levels, ... Silent Aircraft Initiative.

The objective of these observations is to contribute towards the safety, regularity and efficiency of aircraft operations during takeoff and landing.

It's a day of reckoning. Yesterday we saw huge amounts of aircraft coming in, so on this first day of the new phase of the emergency we have to make sure that everything is coordinated.

It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, with the first Airbus aircraft delivered to China Eastern Airlines in 1985.

It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is the first operator of many Airbus aircraft types and has the largest fleet of A300, A310 and A340 aircraft in China.

It's a good environment for training exercises until large-bodied aircraft start controlling the airspace. That could be several years away at least.

It's just the same kind of arresting gear that they use onboard aircraft carriers.

It's a matter of funding. As we get the funding, we can bring more vintage aircraft in.

Henry Shelton

It's a matter now of the procedures that we have to go through to have the aircraft returned,

It's an attention-getter, but it's not blinding. It's not a distraction. So pilots can still focus on flying the aircraft without endangering anyone or themselves.

It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.

That's real aviation. You don't even need an aircraft to fly. I feel there are a lot of things to discover in life.

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.

That means an aircraft operators use of air traffic control resources determines the amount owed to the FAA, whether the aircraft is carrying three or thirty or three-hundred passengers.

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan. The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan, ... The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

Eclipse, a U.S. company, has come out with the (smaller) Eclipse 500. There are huge orders booked for these aircraft and they think they are going to be the next big thing.

Each pilot will go to the simulator once a year. If the FAA feels that they want to have the aircraft require a type rating, I would support that.

Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.

Jim Hall

The board will try to determine if those impact marks -- as well as the stripping of both nuts' threads -- were made before the aircraft contacted the water or after,

That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compatibility remains on the airport.

A laptop computer controlled the system and logged the data. While we looked primarily at wireless phones, we also discovered that emissions from other portable electronic devices were problematic. We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.

The mission that they'll go on in terms of picking up, delivering critical supplies is very similar to the type of mission these particular aircraft and this particular unit will do in combat,

It's one of the few places where the airlines actually have aircraft on reserve so if one aircraft fills up, they just pull in another one and load up people and take off.

Shane Osborn

It's not very common for a big, slow-moving aircraft to ram into a high-performance jet fighter, ... And we definitely made a sharp left turn -- that was called uncontrolled flight -- inverted in a dive after he impacted my propeller and my nose.

It's not uncommon for aircraft to have problems with their landing gear. This isn't unique to this particular aircraft.

Vijay Mallya

For the first time, we will be able to offer direct non-stop services between India and the USA and these aircraft will have a unique configuration giving passengers extra space and comfort on their long flights,

Fort Dix and McGuire have evolved with more personnel and more aircraft than I expected, ... If you would have told me four months ago that we would have 30-plus more aircraft, newer jet tankers and 1,000 to 2,000 more positions, I would have responded that it was too optimistic, but it does appear that is what's in store for McGuire and Dix under the new joint-base plan.

However, the jump in new orders was too narrowly concentrated in civilian aircraft and defense orders to offer much more than modest encouragement. Although the worst may be over for the manufacturing sector, any recovery is likely to be sluggish.

By declaring pre-emptive bushfire emergencies, all local areas will be in the highest state of readiness and will be able to deploy firefighters, tankers and aircraft immediately.

The January revision is mostly due to the plunge in aircraft orders reported in the durable-goods numbers. In February, the index was pulled down by lower consumer confidence, higher jobless claims, shorter delivery times and lower building permits.

The long range of these new missiles will reduce the risk to both aircraft and crew by decreasing their exposure in a high threat environment.