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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

We will assess the information from the flight data recorder along with other information that will enable us to focus on certain parts of the wreckage in terms of what to retrieve.

We had to drive in hours and hours of traffic to Jackson, Miss., because our flight from New Orleans was canceled. We got a flight out of there, which was the last flight before the airport closed.

This Veterans Day, my mind returns again and again to a flight I took home from Baghdad in August -- and an unforgettable reminder of the obligation we have to all who serve the country we love. As we boarded the C-130, I looked into the cargo hold and saw a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier home to his family and final resting place.

We cannot at this time explain the circumstances that were occurring on Flight 990 that resulted in the flight profile I just described,

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.

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.

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,

We will substantiate what occurred on the flight leg previous to the accident flight.

The problem has been building, ... Given the history of capital flight in Indonesia, it's more important to be decisive.

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.

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,

We informed the government and UNITA of the flight details -- the flight path, the time, the number of people on board and the cargo.

We expect the first Virgin Galactic space flight to take place in 2008, which gives our Flying Club members time to save up all their miles.

We changed our flight last night, there was no problem there. The problem is getting a taxi to the airport. There aren't any.

We think he's going to be on the flight (Thursday).

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

I've asked Rick Nichols at Nike to see what I can do to bridge the gap, to maybe put a 5-wood or 7-wood in the bag. But I have a problem with having to be able to flight the golf ball with those clubs.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A flight to quality remains the front mission of the Street's investment banking community.

After every flight there is a third-party review of the flight tapes to make sure that there was a full compliance with all flight rules and regulations.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nowhere can a person find greater solitude than alone in flight

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,

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.

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.'

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.

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.

An endurance increase of this magnitude means soldiers can keep Hunter aloft much longer, allowing them to gather more intelligence and survey larger areas during a single flight. A flight time exceeding 21 hours, coupled with advanced avionics and sensors, makes the MQ-5B the most advanced unmanned aerial system in the Army's inventory today.

A resurgence of demand is unlikely, but we believe there will be a flight to quality. We will not sell a ride on a specific launch vehicle - Atlas or Proton. Instead we will sell a ticket to orbit and diversify the launch risk.

As a flight attendant, I'd take a lighter over a blade (from scissors) any time. I can hear a lighter. I can't hear a blade.

As airplanes break through the normal flight day, these airplanes need to get fixed. And if these guys can't fix them they get set off to the side. We're confident that over a period of time it begins to snowball, and they're going to have a real problem maintaining their schedule.

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.

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.