The price-tag of a legacy fighter may appear to be lower, but if it is less likely to survive combat, or its survival depends on support from electronic jammers and other helpers that a stealthy fighter does not need, then in the end the plane with the higher price-tag may turn out to be cheaper.
"Through the smoke, you could see the end of the plane sitting in the courtyard, " Zapatero said.
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She traveled by bus, train and plane to end run Hurricane Irene in search of the billionaire Johnson family.
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How then did Boeing end up with a plane full of them?
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"There was no indication of any problems on landing, but as the plane reached the end of the runway two of its tyres burst, " the spokesman said.
When I emerged from my plane at one end of the concourse, I saw red columns in front of me, and it was only as I walked down the concourse that I saw that the columns were becoming orange, then yellow, then green and blue and violet.
That political fight came to a sudden end with his death in a plane crash in northeastern Minnesota.
The airport was not placed in a state of full-scale alert at any time but the stranded plane remained at the end of the runway for over an hour forcing 12 flights due to land at Manchester to be diverted to Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham Airports.
And though Mr Menem will not fulfil his promise (or threat) that an Argentine flag would fly over the Falklands before the end of his term, an Argentine plane just might.
The pilots, flying from Prague to Stansted with 149 passengers, only realised their mistake when their plane neared the runway's end, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said.
The Saudis said they decided to storm the plane after reaching "a dead end" in negotiations during the 18 hours the Vnukova Airlines Tupolev 154 jet was parked on the tarmac at Medina.
As a result, families often end up separated or at the back of the plane.
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Anyone who jumps out of a plane without a parachute is likely to end up seriously injured or dead.
Initially, Russia hoped to sign a contract to deliver its T-50 fighter plane to India, but in the end India insisted on the joint development of a new aircraft, based on the T-50 but with modifications for the Indian Air Force.
The reviews by regulators and by Boeing could result in a need for the company to make changes to the batteries, which could challenge its plans to double production of the plane to 10 a month by the end of this year.
The company that operates flights from Land's End to the Isles of Scilly has had to adapt a new plane it is adding to its fleet.
It said the expansion would create 50 new jobs, as well as see it take on a new plane, build a new terminal at Land's End and refit two ships.
Right up to the end, he could travel long distances around the globe, get off the plane and go freshly and enthusiastically to work.
In the end, passengers did not have to go into their pockets to help fuel the plane, the airline said.
Plane flights by Skybus operate from Bristol, Exeter, Land's End, Newquay and Southampton, but are more susceptible to bad weather than the helicopters.
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Korean Air had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s.
Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.
This first portion of the journey will end in Phoenix, and it'll take around twenty hours to get there, as the plane's meager output limits its average speed to around 40MPH.
In the end, a Sikh taxi driver races through empty streets to take them to the airport, where an Air India plane waits.
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