They'll gladly play with a traditional "boys' toy" like a toy plane, so long as it's pink.
"I have been building this plane so long," Mr. Yunger said, recalling how his brother, Bill, came up with the idea 46 years ago.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for Ryanair, the low-cost Irish carrier, said his company would have no qualms about looking at a Russian plane so long as it met European Union safety standards.
Mah said that she gets that sometimes planes have to be diverted but doesn't understand why she and her fellow passengers were locked into the plane for so long.
Radar can only track a plane for so long; eventually it moves out of radar range and flies off the controller's screen.
Kelly Johnson, the wizard of Lockheed Aircraft Company's legendary Skunk Works, designs and builds the U-2, an ungainly, fragile, greyhound of a plane with wings so long and flexible they need wheeled crutches to support them on takeoff.
At present, business travellers from Brazil, China or the US heading for West Yorkshire are currently told they can change planes anywhere they like, so long as it isn't London.
It certainly had enough fuel on board to do this.Given the fact that the plane continued flying for so long, the search area has now been widened spectacularly, along two corridors.
Some have asked why no one tried to raise the alarm if the plane was flying for so long - why did passengers not make phone calls as those aboard the hijacked United Flight 93 did in September 2001.
What made the air crash so upsetting was that there were these poor people who had lost their loved ones on one of my planes and it took us so long to give them a reason why.
