Word: plane
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...when the job involves piloting an aircraft loaded with passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
...high-speed, number-crunching power for both defense and intelligence uses seems boundless. Last year the Pentagon spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to step up the speed of the fastest machines. One Government project that has a special need for supercomputing power is the national aerospace plane, a high-altitude aircraft intended to carry military and civilian cargo at up to 25 times the speed of sound. Since there are no wind tunnels capable of simulating such blistering airspeeds, the hypersonic plane will have to be tested on supercomputers, ideally on machines many times as powerful as existing...
...availability of human expertise. Says Edward Feigenbaum, an AI pioneer and co-author of a | forthcoming book on second-wave success stories: "Every system we have looked at improved productivity by more than an order of magnitude -- that's like the difference between a car and a jet plane...
...That blast was Bob Horner's 37th homer of the season. Ever since he took that plane back from Japan...
Another consideration for students would be a lack of funds. Most students can't afford taxi fare to the airport, let alone a plane ticket. You could always get your parents to pay for a trip home, but who wants to be subjected to a week-long barrage of "What are you doing with your life? Why don't you get a haircut?" sermons from relatives...