1.   You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters.

2.   The aircraft took off with a gaping hole in its fuselage.

3.   The Hercules transport aircraft is taking food and medicine to the besieged city of Sarajevo.

4.   The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway.

5.   The aircraft had taken off from Prestwick half-an- hour earlier.

6.   American Eagle said that swapping and rescheduling aircraft would probably take months to fine tune to give cities their usual level of service.

7.   Because all four aircraft had just taken off for cross-country flights, they were laden with fuel which contributed to the enormity of the explosions and fires.

8.   Both aircraft had been taking part in a second day of Indian rocket attacks against Islamic guerrillas who have seized mountaintop positions a few miles inside Indian territory.

9.   Commercial aircraft take so long to build that Boeing has to order parts and materials years in advance.