They took off together, passing rider after rider.
"It was never where we'd take off together, visit each other in the off-season.
"They came with sickles, swords, sticks, spears, and all us of took off together," said Mr. Brahmo, 32.
Mr. McCain's Republican presidential campaign and his book, written with his administrative assistant, Mark Salter, and published in September 1999, took off together, Mr. Salter said.
The couple and friends in two other planes took off together around 11 a.m. from Westerly State Airport in Rhode Island, said Mark Simmons, who was in one of the other planes.
That makes four hooky players, all of whom take off together in a series of adventures that make up the bulk of the book.
Allison Hopelain and Russ Moore looked a bit dazed: it was the first night they'd taken off together since they opened their popular Oakland restaurant, Camino, a year ago.
For reasons of their own, the Tour directors this year put in a sliding scale for the team time trial, in which nine members of a team take off together, with teams leaving at five-minute intervals.
They became an item almost immediately, and within two weeks took off together for MacMahan Island in Maine, where Mr. Alston had spent summers with his family since childhood.
And for me, watching the actors perform is a little like watching United – when they fly, they take off together, and when they don't, the collapse is truly ensemble.
