In the United States last year, according to industry statistics, more than 10,000 companies operated about 15,500 fixed-wing aircraft, ranging from two-seat turbo-prop planes to heavy-iron jet behemoths that can carry 40 or more passengers.
The streets are frozen in white, the iron lamplights jet black against the stonework.
The great critic and poet William Empson once described the prose used in exhibition catalogues as "a steady iron-hard jet of absolutely total nonsense, as if under great pressure from a hose".
Apart from the last page, everything we read is the internal thought process of the man, working from lust to rage to howling despair: an iron-hard jet of fury, as the style dictates, and reminiscent of the Austrian master of vituperative, Thomas Bernhard.
Though many top executives pride themselves on their expensive heavy-iron luxury jets like the Gulfstream V, she said, there is growing shareholder agitation about flashy corporate jets.
A similar water-based propulsion system from Zapata Racing is a little more affordable at $6,600 and a little more akin to Iron Man's jet system -- but you'll still have to strip out of the wetsuit before heading up to the office.
Demi Moore wears lipstick and mascara to bed; you focus less on her character than trying to ascertain her actual age -- the CGI work, boosted butt, and ironed fall of jet hair make it a challenge.
A long-time pilot, Dickinson has not just flown commercial charters for Astraeus, he has helmed Iron Maiden's private jet and even rescued stranded Britons.
As has been increasingly the case in recent years, G.E.'s crown jewel in the second quarter was its infrastructure division, which makes so-called big iron products like locomotives, jet engines and power turbines, and which has been riding a surge in demand from international markets.
Staiano, who relaxed by pumping iron aboard his Gulfstream jet, was fired in April.
A very important task was that of improving the modelling of JET plasma, iron core and passive structures.
