1.   As the company celebrated its inaugural flight last Thursday, it was also enjoying a stock price that has more than doubled since March.

2.   During its inaugural flight, ground controllers canceled plans to release the satellite from the grip of the shuttle arm rather than risk losing it.

3.   French President Jacques Chirac reaffirmed his support for Arianespace, the pan-European launch group, one day after its newest rocket exploded seconds into its inaugural flight.

4.   Perhaps for that reason, the airline is playing down the significance of the inaugural flight from Oakland to Baltimore and back, calling it a one-time test.

5.   The business jet, which will compete in a market now dominated by Gulfstream and Bombardier, will make its inaugural flight Friday from Renton.

6.   The goslings, having traded their coat of golden fluff for feathers, have made their inaugural flights.

7.   The inaugural flights, though long anticipated, were not exactly joyrides.

8.   The inaugural flight today will travel from New York to Miami.

9.   Passengers aboard the inaugural flights included officials and journalists who returned with the planes to Baghdad.

10.   A Jordanian prince and two Cabinet ministers canceled their trip on the inaugural flight Monday of an air link between Jordan and the Israeli port city of Haifa.