61.   Manufacturers have a long backlog of orders, and last year both Boeing and Airbus Industrie announced plans to convert their smallest commercial jets into business jets.

62.   Like commercial jets, private planes were grounded for two days after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

63.   Musharraf, unaware that he had been fired, was seated aboard a commercial jet, heading to Karachi from Sri Lanka.

64.   Most teams fly in luxurious, private planes, not commercial jets, and practice in clandestine solitude.

65.   Near busy airports, the number of complaints about noise from commercial jets increases during hot weather.

66.   On commercial jets I am usually downing Bloody Marys and praying the rosary.

67.   One need only sit in the first-class cabin of any commercial jet to see unearned, nouveau riche imperiousness in full flower.

68.   Only the presidential candidates are able to lease the kinds of commercial jets enjoyed by Bush and Gore.

69.   Plus, it installed a heads-up display that projects flight data on the windshield of a commercial jet for the first time.

70.   Q. Why do military jets, including those reconfigured from commercial aircraft, fly so much higher than commercial jets?