A repeated measures analysis of variance of test day (pre-flight, landing day, 3 days post flight), stand test (supine, stand) and group (finishers, non-finishers) factors was used with group nested within subjects.
In Los Angeles several flight attendants stood behind us as we struggled to get the children and carry-ons down the aisle.
Waiting to board my California-bound flight, I stood in a throng of anxious fellow passengers, while gate agents announced: "It's a full plane.
A few days later, after mute weeping won me a seat on a fully booked trans-Atlantic flight, I stood in the wan light of early December and watched the employees of the funeral home as they unloosed the pulleys to lower Dad's wooden box into the ground.
"It really sends a message that the flight attendants stand behind their contract," said Dawn Deeks, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants.
Mr. Ford's flight deck stands on casters in his garage amid the enticing clutter of welding equipment, hand tools and wiring.
In a few weeks' time Zephyr 3 will be lifted to a height of 9km by a helium-filled balloon, before being launched on a mission intended to break Helios's record for high-altitude flight, which stands at 29km.
While the metaphors are not subtle — a reader can easily surmise that the power of flight might stand for video games, that Goodday is doing the equivalent of shilling your Wii, and that the stuck sun and choked rains signify climate change — Magnason generally manages to temper his morality tale with enough wit and levity that it doesn't feel heavy-handed.
When they finally get round to installing a house section in the Smithsonian, "Solitary Flight" will stand shoulder to shoulder with "Can You Feel It", "Show Me Love'" and "Move Your Body".
Most of them appeared more focused on finding their seats than sizing up the flight crew, but this flight attendant, Ron Akana, stood out, not least because of the 11 sparkling rhinestones on the wings pinned to his lapel.
