Attached to the jet engines of almost every big airliner is a device called a thrust reverser.

The flight was also smooth, though you did have more of a sense of riding on air currents than you would in a big airliner.

No sane convoy master would assemble 18 big airliners without contracting some free-lance air cover.

One was to establish "one level of safety" for commuter planes and bigger airliners.

But for a big airliner which goes much faster, the wind doesn't have an impact apart from take off and landing.

Unlike autos or appliances, the assembly of big airliners is not easily transferred abroad.

The big airliner began to veer over, clipping the close-in fighter in the process, causing it to explode almost immediately.

So they've been converting big airliners like 767s, 777s and even 747s into private planes.

No such data have been gathered for the airline pilots because they are barred from flying big commercial airliners after their 60th birthday.

Airbus also makes the biggest airliner in the world, the Airbus A380.