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  • An air-liner can be built with a considerable factor of safety, as it is practically never called upon to "stunt", and is therefore rarely subject to excessive stresses.

    British Aviation in War and Peace 1930

  • Report Abuse In 1988, Ghadaffi personally ordered the terrorist attack on a civilian air-liner, killing over 243 innocent American / British passengers and their crew, KILL GHADAFI WHILE WE HAVE THIS CHANCE !

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Aviation security consultant Alan Pilton told The Independent: 'The point of origin of many of these flights are from places where the security is not so good, and that is the reason we have to face the nightmare scenario of a hijacked passenger air-liner flying into UK airspace.'

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Aviation security consultant Alan Pilton told The Independent: 'The point of origin of many of these flights are from places where the security is not so good, and that is the reason we have to face the nightmare scenario of a hijacked passenger air-liner flying into UK airspace.'

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Lord BILLING left England yesterday for New York in the Transatlantic air-liner _P. B.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

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