41. Earlier, the U. S. Capitol was the scene of a hasty evacuation in the wake of commercial jet crashes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 42. European Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan complained earlier this month that U.S. defense spending amounts to an indirect subsidy for U.S. commercial jet makers. 43. FAA officials suspect more powerful lasers were involved in the flashes seen by commercial jet pilots in recent months. 44. Fierce competition with Airbus, the European consortium that is the only remaining maker of large commercial jets, means Boeing cannot raise prices even when demand is high. 45. Flying commercial jets can get pretty boring, surely the pilots would welcome the challenge and adrenalin rush of landing a jumbo jet on an aircraft carrier. 46. Flying commandeered commercial jets across the country, they quickly captured a major western military base at Kitona. 47. He said the commercial jet market in China will grow twice as fast as that for the rest of the world. 48. In a sense, their quandary was no different from what pilots of commercial jets face under similar circumstances. 49. In fact, if properly labeled and packaged, you can ship almost anything in the cargo hold of a commercial jet. 50. In addition, McDonnell Douglas last month scrapped plans to build a new long-range commercial jet, saying the costs of developing the aircraft made the project too risky. |