With the plane safely airborne, the passengers broke into the kind of applause that travel sophisticates usually eschew.
There was virtually no effect on departing flights, Mr. Haney said, and no loss of radar contact with airborne planes.
All four groups of the 73d Bomb Wing were sent on their first mission to Japan on November 24 with 111 planes airborne.
The radio call "ninety-nine aircraft" referred to all of the carrier's airborne planes.
Soldiers had to complete 5 successful jumps from an airborne plane to successfully pass and become a Canadian Paratrooper.
Several miles away was another airborne plane, heading toward our mutual goal.
She thought he must be in the airborne warning-and-control plane Barrows mentioned.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered many flights grounded after the service disruption and it greatly increased the distance between airborne planes to prevent an accident.
His sacrifice will cover the cost of Cliffhanger's key stunt scene in which a bad guy jumps between airborne planes.