The Spanish airline had been kept aloft with the help of €150 million, or about $200 million, of subsidies from regional authorities in Catalonia.
Many planes were kept aloft principally to be available for an attack on Mr. bin Laden if he were located, officials said.
It is suspended above a New York subway seat that has been screwed to the gallery wall, and is kept aloft by a powerful magnet hidden in a sports bag that's also stuck to the wall.
And airlines are notoriously cyclical, so too much leverage would be a problem.Back in 1989, the failure of a leveraged buy-out of UAL sent its stock skidding and was widely viewed as the trigger for the broader collapse of a market that had been kept aloft on the promise of endless deals.
The media celebrity system is kept aloft not just by powerful handlers but by layers of semi-anonymous toilers — press agents and talent bookers, and, well below them, headwaiters, bouncers, and chauffeurs — all of whom help build and guard a mystique of which they, as much as anyone, are the victims, since most of them are disposable.
It is kept aloft partly to give NASA's astronauts and space shuttles something to do, and partly because of its value as a tool of foreign policy to foster co-operation with the Russians.The station is one of the few remaining areas of Russo-American collaboration.
The voice is as influenced by the imaginary — when she practices, Deanna likes to picture a Ping-Pong ball being kept aloft by a stream of water shooting from the top of her head — as by anything more straightforward that a singer might do with larynx or jaw or tongue.
Their hero, Matt Brennan, a hardened, veteran airman, is kept aloft during most of the story from the time he is piloting B-17 bombers over Germany during the trying early days of the war up through the peacetime climax, when he is testing the newest jet jobs for an opportunist plane manufacturer.
In Nicholson Baker's "Room Temperature," there's a brilliantly surreal scene in which a plummeting plane is kept aloft after the hero thinks to shout, "Turn your air vents to full, people!" And then there's Calvin Trillin, who's argued that the key to arriving safely is never setting your watch to the local time until after your plane has touched down.
Aquila has to be incredibly light, because it's going to be kept aloft for as long as three months at a time using solar power.
