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Trucks and buses and even small airplanes capable of operating with short landing strips increasingly have been used to transport goods and people, replacing the traditional horses, mules, and burros.

(His current project is the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, an airplane capable of circumnavigating the globe without refueling).

The origin of the aerospace industry dates to 1903 when Wilbur and Orville Wright demonstrated an airplane capable of powered, sustained flight (see Wright flyer of 1903).

It represented the final step in their quest for a practical airplane capable of staying aloft for extended periods of time under the complete control of the pilot.

#2: Developing an airplane capable of setting a world record for distance of flight demands that safety precautions for the pilot be neglected.

PAGE B2 GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP Since many new airplanes are capable of flying nonstop for as long as 20 hours, the Federal Aviation Administration is again wrestling with a troublesome question: How do you make sure the flight crews get enough sleep?

But it is hard to find anything in his past that suggests he would soon be capable of commandeering airplanes and flying them out of the country without any cockpit training, much less without getting caught.

"Airplane must have wings (2 preferred); a tail; an engine capable of lofting the airplane skyward; a place (cockpit) for a pilot or pilots; instruments to help get it from one place to another, and so on, in a statement clear enough to ensure that the contractor not only knows what to build, but how it should work, too".

Unlike an airplane or airship, it is capable of taking off and landing in an area the size of a soccer field- one piece of infrastructure found virtually everywhere in Africa.

The Silverplate project was initiated in June 1943 when Dr. Norman F. Ramsey from the Los Alamos Laboratory's E-7 Group identified the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as the only airplane in the United States inventory capable of carrying either type of the proposed weapons shapes: the tubular shape of the Thin Man, and the oval shape of the Fat Man.

But one of its leaders has described himself as a "jihadist," and Rafallah al-Sehati officials said that weapons capable of taking down airplanes were stolen when their compound was overrun by protesters last month.