You could use the same assisted-launch system to make passenger jetliners smaller and more fuel-efficient too, but the savings aren't worth the cost.

Sales of passenger jetliners to the East bloc also appear likely.

On a passenger jetliner first class refers to a limited number (rarely more than 16) of seats or cabins located in the front of the aircraft which are notable for their comfort, service and privacy.

He assembled models as a child, flew military jets in the air force and built passenger jetliners into the country's leading export business.

"Without the jet engine, we would never have the passenger jetliners and the total integration of the world."

The Navy later admitted that the plane shot down was the Iranian passenger jetliner.

Still, it seemed likely to revive questions about airport security, not only for passenger jetliners but also for small, general aviation aircraft.

Syria was accused of involvement with a terrorist convicted of trying to plant a bomb aboard an Israeli passenger jetliner taking off from London.

Anatoly Kornukov retired as commander of the air force, ending a long career curiously marked by two incidents in which military forces shot down passenger jetliners.

In January 1999, a former employee of an upstate New York company that makes steel cable for the control systems of passenger jetliners and military aircraft approached federal prosecutors with a startling story.