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Affected Quotes
Northwest's operations steadily improved after the start of the AMFA strike. In the weeks leading up to the strike during the month of August, Northwest's on-time performance, completion factor and aircraft out of service were negatively impacted by an AMFA slowdown, as well as weather events including Hurricane Katrina that negatively affected the operations of all airlines.
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Affected Quotes
Northwest's operations steadily improved after the start of the AMFA strike, ... In the weeks leading up to the strike during the month of August, Northwest's on-time performance, completion factor and aircraft out of service were negatively impacted by an AMFA slowdown, as well as weather events including Hurricane Katrina that negatively affected the operations of all airlines.
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Move Quotes
Once we get all the aircraft relocated from hangar No. 5 into the new one, we'll start dismantling No. 5 and put it up in a new location. Then, we'll move aircraft from No. 4 to No. 5, in its new location, and so on. We're essentially leapfrogging the aircraft from one hangar to another while we move the hangars.
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Aerospace Quotes
The money's coming from both side of the business. You have commercial aerospace with explosive growth. The commercial aircraft orders have been exceptionally strong over the course of the summer and also on the defense side of the business where government budgets have been picking up in the last couple of years and are not expected to continue to pick up through the next administration.
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Best Quotes
Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.
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Computer Quotes
A laptop computer controlled the system and logged the data. While we looked primarily at wireless phones, we also discovered that emissions from other portable electronic devices were problematic. We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.
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Addition Quotes
The unparalleled flexibility and superior technology of the original CRJ200 airliner platform continues to generate significant interest in three distinct offerings - as a corporate shuttle, and as a large cabin executive jet, in addition to the market-leading 50-passenger CRJ regional airliner. Challenger 850 aircraft operators are able to take advantage of an outstanding dispatch reliability based on the proven CRJ200 aircraft record, low direct operating costs and an established worldwide support network.
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Buys Quotes
This marks another significant milestone for the F-16 Fighting Falcon the most sought after fighter in history. With 4,300 aircraft in total delivered to 24 countries, the F-16 is the only international aircraft program that can claim more than 50 follow-on buys by 14 repeat customers, each who have relied on the Fighting Falcon as a key component of their national defense and fighter force structure.
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Achievement Quotes
Assembly of the first F-35 is our most visible achievement to date. Initiation of electrical power and arrival of the F135 Engine, slated for installation in February, were also significant achievements for the program. We have already started major assemblies on the first three STOVL aircraft, which all incorporate the weight reductions and structural improvements of the updated 'optimized' design. Assembly of the first optimized CTOL aircraft also is under way. Most recently, the F-35 program was approved to proceed to the Air System Critical Design Review for the F-35 STOVL and CTOL variants, Feb. 14-17, a positive reflection of the program's developmental progress.
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Achieves Quotes
It's another great day for our nation, the Air Force and certainly for the Raptor industry team. Thousands of workers in 42 states throughout our nation can take great pride in the fact that we not only met the customer's requirements, but we exceeded these expectations and produced a revolutionary fighter aircraft for our country. The Raptor is the very first supersonic, stealth fighter that incorporates capabilities never before possible in one weapons system and in the words of the Air Force, achieves 'overwhelming' performance.
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Alongside Quotes
It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.
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Capital Quotes
It's pretty clear that all the pieces for capital spending are in place, including rising sales, lower inventories and increases in shipments and orders, ... So, despite what CEOs say in public, there's no question that capital spending -- outside of aircraft and telecommunications -- has bottomed and is on the way up.
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Call Quotes
That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.
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Company Quotes
Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.
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Fast Quotes
It's not a matter of how fast that they work on it. It's a matter of the precision that they use and the precision tools that they work. And there is a productivity requirement because the soldiers up front are waiting for the soldiers to return, whether for Medivac aircraft or fire power support,
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Adversary Quotes
If the purpose of naming an aircraft carrier is to convey the strength and seriousness of this country and our military, then we have certainly accomplished that, ... Something tells me that any potential adversary of the United States will take notice when word arrives that the USS Ronald Reagan has been sighted offshore.