His hopes and fortune lay south of the border, and the Mexican heroin his pilots ferried across from Sonora biweekly had financed Bonelli's excursion into more legitimate forms of enterprise.

Elsa's pilot had ferried the two engineers from Zurich in her personal jet.

These pilots ferried replacement planes around the world.

Female pilots flying Blackhawk transport helicopters ferried troops through combat zones during the gulf war, but were not permitted to fly Apache gunships, which typically attacked Iraqi targets from five to six miles away.

But in a coordinated operation last month, American and Peruvian pilots ferried Peruvian troops and antidrug police to Palma Pampas, a major trafficking center 400 miles southeast of Santa Lucia, where the police seized radios, ledgers, generators, laboratory chemicals and 372 pounds of cocaine base.

On 15 January 1945, four of No. 80 Squadron's pilots were ferrying Kittyhawks from Noemfoor to Morotai when they missed their destination and had to land on the Japanese-held Talaud Islands, where they were captured and executed.

The hard-worked pilots were ferrying in chiefs and visitors and simply anyone who got on their passenger planes.

Not only had the pilot been ferrying supplies from Tajikistan, Mr. Sattar said, but on return trips he had been taking away the personal effects of Mr. Massoud and his top commanders.

In Nigeria, Ève also first met her Polish half-compatriots - a Captain Izicki told her how Polish and British pilots ferried the planes assembled in West Africa in convoys over the jungles and deserts to Sudan and later to Egypt.

As the name implies, ferrying had been its main job, and during the period its pilots ferried 13,595 aircraft to final domestic destinations, while 632 planes were delivered to foreign destinations under the supervision of the command.