Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

Tracks in the snow showed the plane was airborne in less than a hundred feet.

But in the plane there was a concrete reason for it.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Everybody else was allowed to file off the plane after it touched down at El Paso at 4:18 a.m..

At 12:50 p.m. a ramp was rolled up to the plane.

I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.

I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.

Seconds after Cantor's building was struck by the plane, a Goldman Sachs server issued an alert saying that its trading system had gone offline because it wasn't able to connect with a Cantor server.

The Channel F is only able to use one plane of graphics and one of four background colors per line, only three plot colors to choose from ( red, green and blue ) that turned into white if the background is set to black.

The captain is able to safely land the plane.

Thanks to its long runway ( 4, 000 m ), even the largest types of plane are able to use its facilities.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

Later Greek philosophers defined the classic five simple machines ( excluding the inclined plane ) and were able to roughly calculate their mechanical advantage.

Warned by Hearing Aid, Nick is able to penetrate the military computers and manufacture a counter-order to stop the plane just before it reaches the town.

After the hijackers took control of the plane, several passengers and flight attendants were able to make telephone calls and learn that attacks had already been made by other hijacked airlines on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington, D. C.

The prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips.

If the arresting wires fail to capture the plane, it is able to take off again.

Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter.

A Soviet team investigating the incident was not able to determine the cause of the crash, but hypothesized that the plane was flying low to evade radar and misjudged the plane's altitude.

The organisms would have had limited ability to flex to the right and left ( in the sagittal plane ), but would have been able to roll up.

This was the first controlled flight, to be officially recognised, by a plane able to take off under its own power alone without any auxiliary machine such as as a catapult.

In 1959, William Oldendorf, a UCLA neurologist and senior medical investigator at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration hospital, conceived an idea for " scanning a head through a transmitted beam of X-rays, and being able to reconstruct the radiodensity patterns of a plane through the head " after watching an automated apparatus built to reject frostbitten fruit by detecting dehydrated portions.

Later Greek philosophers defined the classic five simple machines ( excluding the inclined plane ) and were able to roughly calculate their mechanical advantage.

The remaining terrorists are killed during the exchange, the bomb is finally disarmed, and the plane is able to regain its stability.

After approximately two years of further research and development, they were able to demonstrate a core plane that was made of 32 by 32, or 1024 cores, holding 1024 bits of data.

The company was faced with not being able to charter out the plane because of the low seat numbers, but could not put in the extra seats because of the aircraft also being used on the scheduled market.

The pilots were able to keep the plane flying for several minutes before crashing into a mountain.

On returning to the plane Carlos stood before Yamani and Amuzegar and expressed his regret at not being able to murder them.

" In " The Finale ", when they think their plane is about to crash, Elaine is about to say something, but the pilot is immediately able to steady the plane.

The Thing is able to talk to the computers in the airport, and it tells the nomes where the plane is.