JORDAN--Cheryl Faithe, age 57, a flight attendant, died January 4, 2005 of breast cancer.
In other words, we could be living through a brief gilded age of European flight, which is doomed, like Icarus, to rise too close to the sun.
The memorial, which looks like a neolithic standing stone and may soon feel as if it comes from an equally distant age, is at the top of a flight of steps.
Bill Bishop, a journalist, and Robert Cushing, a sociologist, who have studied this issue, stress that the age of "white flight" to the suburbs is over.
It's a treasure of history, the last remnants of that golden age of passenger flight".
Fast-forward more than three decades, and it's the age of supersonic flight that is over, with the recent retirement of the Concorde.
The end, at least for now, of the supersonic age of commercial flight will take place on Friday, when British Airways' Concorde makes its exit off the stage of aviation.
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The mean age of the flight attendants was 47 years; most were female (80% and 411% had twenty or more years on the job.
A lactating female E. fuscus was captured from a day roost with an adult-sized pup attached to the teat estimated to be PND 36 (using the growth equations of Kunz, 1974; Brigham and Brigham, 1989), demonstrating that maternal dependence can last well past the age of first flight attempts (e.g. Kleiman 1969; Brown, 1976; Brown et al., 1983).
