The officials also quickly reserved the sheriff's helicopters they regularly use to fly ballots into the registrar's office on election night from far-flung polling places across the 400-square-mile Los Angeles County.
While law enforcement officers around the country are regularly allowed to fly with their weapons as long as they get approval from the cockpit crew, the California program is an effort to formalize that practice and, with the extra training, to enhance it, said the Highway Patrol commissioner, D. O. Helmick.
The air and ground crew deployed to East Timor endured difficult living conditions until their accommodation and recreation facilities were upgraded in mid-2000, and the pilots were regularly required to fly into poorly maintained air strips.
While it was once regularly less expensive to fly out of Ontario than Los Angeles International, now it rarely is, Sean Nealon said as he returned from a trip to Montana.
At the peak of the "Teletubbies" craze in England, British tabloids regularly sent helicopters to fly over the set, eager to get a picture of a Teletubby with its costume head removed, revealing the actor within.
Then in March, United Airlines became the first US airline to fly regularly scheduled flights powered by biojet.
Private aircraft were the first to fly regularly in Mozambique, but after World War II Portugal's national airline opened a route between Beira and Maputo.
But the American troops are spread too thin even to fly regularly over the pipelines, which run for hundreds of miles, Iraqi oil officials have said.
Before his 2006 strokes he regularly eschewed private jets to fly commercially from the family's Palm Beach enclave to attend Buccaneers games.
Anyone who has to fly regularly might do well not to watch, and just keep clinging to the illusion that the Hero of the Hudson is at the controls.
