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  • Reuters Qantas is a major customer for the four-engine, 450-passenger-capacity plane, which European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. 's Airbus unit has hoped will transform the commercial-plane industry and give it an advantage over rival Boeing Co., whose 747 first flew more than 40 years ago.

    Troubled Qantas Jet Lands in Singapore 2010

  • He griped that his C-123 Provider, a four-engine cargo plane model that weighs 97 pounds, might be relegated to a museum piece.

    Earthbound Jet Jockeys Caught in Dogfight With FAA Susan Carey 2011

  • That said, I will mention that the DIRECT lunar proposals use a four-engine core stage and a two-launch archetecture.

    Ares V - Ares 1 = Ares IV - NASA Watch 2009

  • Qantas is a major customer for the four-engine, 450-passenger-capacity A380, which Airbus hopes will transform the commercial-plane industry and give it an advantage over rival Boeing Co., whose 747 first flew more than 40 years ago.

    Qantas Grounds Its A380s After Engine Failure Enda Curran 2010

  • Mr. Clark told Flight International magazine that Emirates seats 420 passengers on the twin-engine 777 and doubts it can get many more passengers on a four-engine 747-8.

    Boeing Displays New 747 Peter Sanders 2011

  • Walker flew single engine P-51 fighter missions over Italy, escorting four-engine B-17 aircraft on bombing runs and carrying out missions destroying enemy guns carried on flat rail cars and other ground targets.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • On September 15, she flew from Columbo to Calcutta, landing at an airport with the disturbingly suggestive name of Dum-Dum, where she transferred to a huge four-engine C-54.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Sales of the four-engine plane have dried up due to rising fuel costs and airlines have switched to buy the A330 twin-jet instead.

    EADS Boosted by Airbus David Pearson 2011

  • On September 15, she flew from Columbo to Calcutta, landing at an airport with the disturbingly suggestive name of Dum-Dum, where she transferred to a huge four-engine C-54.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • His 320th squadron, with its Moby Dick angry whale insignia, flew long-range, four-engine B-24Ds.

    WWII aviator's long journey to his final resting place Michael E. Ruane 2010

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