21.   As aviation executives haggled, fighter jets took to the cloudy skies and screeched over the airfield in aerial displays.

22.   At dawn, government jets took off from Colombo and bombed rebel bases near Thandikulam.

23.   At Istrana northwest of Venice, French Mirage jets took to the air.

24.   British Tornado jets also took part in the raids Thursday night.

25.   But the big guns remained in place after a Monday deadline passed, and NATO jets took to the skies again Tuesday.

26.   Fighter jets took off and landed through the night, with the second wave of operations still in progress by midmorning Tuesday.

27.   He said the jet would take off for Jakarta after the search was completed.

28.   In Iraq, reporters were bused by the government to the air base to watch the Russian-made Ilyushin jet take off.

29.   In all, NATO jets took off from bases in Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands and from carriers in the Adriatic Sea.

30.   In southern Italy, at the Gioia del Colle base, about a dozen jets took off.