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They decided to conduct their training at the Oroville Airport because it has open areas and a large runway in order to do training on emergency maneuvers and do touch and go's, ... the plane they were flying, a 2002 American Champion Super Decathlon, is designed for advanced aerobatics, and both pilots had extensive experience.

John Kuhn

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

David Shore

It is not the runway length that's the issue. Runways are either adequate or they're not.

Bernard Loeb

We didn't know actually where we were going until we were on the runway. They said, 'Arizona.' OK, Arizona. Everybody has been wonderful here.

Doyle Smith

A recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.

Jim Peters

Last year, we had to get snow off the airport runway.

Terry Skorstad

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Debra Messing

We expect to have the information soon. A lot of issues involving the runway and runway safety are being looked at.

Keith Holloway

There are some areas close to the runway at the airport, along the river and a couple of areas in an industrial park, ... There is basically zilch for places they will be able to live.

Barry Arnold

After he crossed the runway, the mechanic acknowledged that he should not have crossed the runway.

Jim Peters

That's a foot higher over her PR, so this was a good day. For us it was an opportunity to get back on grass and a good runway.

Darrell Langford

Eventually, a second runway at the airport needs to be developed. But we don't have a runway constraint at present. We don't have an airspace constraint. We simply need more international gates.

Ben Baldanza

We are sending investigators because O'Hare had two major runway incursions in one week.

Lauren Peduzzi

Usually it's about five minutes of taxi time from the runway to the gate when we're now allowing folks to use the phone.

David Messing

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.

Felicity Huffman

We're giving pilots a black runway.

John Duval

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

Sir Richard Branson

While driving the fuel truck around the airport, the highlight of my day would be when a military fighter jet seemingly appeared out of nowhere and made a high-speed low pass over the runway.

Richard Webb

We were going to have to spend money on safety extensions regardless of runway expansion, and we were able to get the funding to accomplish both.

Noah Lagos

There are no skid marks on the runway.

Bill Polick

It's not a place you can be a little off. You don't have the variable of a long runway to correct any errors.

Richard Ward

The causes are numerous. One of the areas is insufficient concrete, insufficient runway length and the lack of safety areas on some existing airports that we have today.

John Cox

A stunningly capable performer, it possesses runway-model looks, an unmatched pedigree, and build quality the equal of any series production luxury automobile. It's the best Ferrari ever made.

Robert Ross

I'm real hopeful that there can be some real strides forward towards getting the runway reopened.

Warren Wenz

Richard's collection is truly runway-ready. We hope our customers will enjoy our new look just as much as we do.

Joanne Smith

As we continue to add more capacity with the runway projects, we will ask the FAA to take a look at voluntary flight reductions and roll them back.

Roderick Drew

This report is extremely misleading. The justification for lengthening the runway doesn't make any sense.

John Whitescarver

There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all with the plane.

Herb Kelleher

When you're on the runway getting ready to go on the Coliseum field, you think about all the big events that have been held there, all the great athletes who have competed there.

Keith Burns

We have indications that he did land perhaps a bit long on the runway.

Réal Levasseur

Our work is not just on the runway. I'm sure people understand.

Francois Girbaud

He came in long and apparently attempted to take off again near the end of the runway.

Bill Polick

We couldn't land right away there was a dog on the runway.

Ray Romano

You need a 1000nm runway to do it and we only have 628nm.

Grant Wharington

The defined touchdown zone is the first 3,000 feet of the runway.

John Cox

I give the pilot four stars and a medal for getting that thing down on the runway in the first place. I consider that guy to be a masterful pilot; whether you practice on a simulator or not, that's just experience.

Paul Czysz

You need a 1000-nautical mile runway to do it and we only have 628 nautical miles.

Grant Wharington

It was about 1am, they were landing and the aircraft went off the runway about 15m. The nose gear was off in the grass, but the back tires stayed on the edge of the asphalt.

Richard Koroscil

Our air-traffic group is looking at the decision-making process and how they decided which runway to use and which ones not to use. We are also examining the responses between the pilots and the air-traffic controllers and what they viewed as the conditions of the runway.

Keith Holloway

There are quite a few witnesses who say they observed the aircraft halfway down the runway, longer than normal and longer than usual for this type of aircraft.

Réal Levasseur

Runway incursions at our nation's airports reached record levels in 2000. With safety as our highest priority, this is simply unacceptable.

Carol Hallett

I do think it's cute. But it's more of a runway look. It all depends on the dress. And your flair.

Laura Schara

Serious and continuing issue of runway incursions.

Frank Wolf

We don't care who it is as long as it's busy. We are always trying to do it better. We don't want to get in the business of artificially limiting capacity. Our goal is to use every bit of capacity that's there. It's just tough when you have one runway in high mountains. It would be different if there were capacity that was going unused.

Greg Dyer

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

Pat Abeln

When you break out of the clouds on a snowy night like that, you don't try to do a nice squeaky smooth landing. You plant the plane down onto the runway.

Robert Mark

I know that runway, 24 Left, very well. What you're concerned about is, where did the plane touch down and how fast was it going?

John Cox

One of them landed right on the runway, and the others just kept going.

Lee Robinson

Ironically...at 300 takeoffs and landings a day, nobody asked us to ever do a tortoise check. But before I can clear a spaceship to land, I have to do a tortoise check of the primary runway.

Stuart Witt

We're just trying to build products that people use and enjoy, and this gives us more runway to do that.

James Barton

It's way overdue. You have no idea how much the amount of [runway] backup there is.

Michael Pierce

In the season's first eight episodes, 'Project Runway' has exceeded even our highest expectations for great buzz, and even greater ratings. Enough people have said, literally, 'I don't know what I'm going to do when Runway ends!', that we've made the decision to help them by extending the run!

Lauren Zalaznick

Most of our airports, when they started, have open areas on both ends of the runway. But now, they're full of residents. People who go there are not authorized to be there, but they are there.

Benjamin Defensor

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Saul Alinsky

If the crew had deployed [the reversers] immediately or had they been successful . . . it certainly wouldn't have killed the kid and it might even have kept the plane on the runway.

Richard Healing

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Shalom Harlow

This would involve all the property south of AMKO and west of Runway 16-34.

Catherine Cook

When you're on a plane and something sounds funny, if the stewardess looks calm, you relax, ... A lot of people work very hard for what is essentially 20 minutes on the runway, but it's the right 20 minutes.

Fern Mallis

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Jon Karkow

She's not afraid to put something on the runway that is different, Our Gucci business has been amazing, especially in accessories, but the biggest growth opportunity is in ready-to-wear.

Ronald Frasch

It was about 1 a.m., they were landing and the aircraft went off the runway about 50 feet (15 meters). The nose gear was off in the grass, but the back tires stayed on the edge of the asphalt.

Richard Koroscil

It was one of those cheesy model-type things where we had to walk across a runway like a piece of meat.

Marshall Allman

The laws of physics don't change; we just figured out how to give us some more runway.

Margaret Lewis

[Cox, however, emphasized that Toronto's airport has long, grooved runways, which should prevent the buildup of puddles, but which can also lead to hydroplaning.] I know that runway, 24 Left, very well, ... What you're concerned about is, where did the plane touch down and how fast was it going?

John Cox

When you first lift up off the runway and start seeing the ground moving away, it's 'Wow!' and the young people get some really great expressions.

Aaron Anderson

Every runway is different, so I can't give black-and-white answers.

Allen Kenitzer

It wouldn't have been missed (in pre-flight). They check tires before in a walk-around. A tire can hit something in the runway to cause it to go flat, (but) it is not common.

Dean Breest

This should be a working conference bringing together technical experts, airlines, controllers, airport officials, private pilots, to come up with focused recommendations for reducing runway incursions and a realistic schedule and a realistic budget to carry out those recommendations.

Frank Wolf

I just had to come back to see this beautiful bird come back to this runway. Discovery was virtually perfect on this mission.

Steve Robinson

It tracked nicely down the runway, except it didn't stop.

Réal Levasseur

They were more than 100 feet apart, we don't know how much more. The Air Canada jet had already finished crossing the runway when the America West jet flew over the runway at about 100 feet.

Donn Walker

Given the conditions of last night, I think one of the big questions that has to be answered is how much information and what type of information did the flight crew have to make a landing at that runway?

Greg Feith

We instituted a new system of runway passes and limited the number of photographers. There was a problem last season; we listened; we paid attention.

Fern Mallis

I would think April is the next possible time. It's on the runway for trial now.

Evert N. Fowle

We are not looking at any land acquisition programs for safety area compliance or runway extensions.

Erin O'donnell

Is analogous to building part of an airplane in a factory and part of the airplane on the runway. You can imagine that's a pretty expensive way to split the construction so the fact that we can just do the entire integrated rocket, transport it as a single unit, that definitely reduces costs.

Elon Musk

When we touched the ground, people were clapping and cheering because we thought it was going to be a fine landing. Seconds later, we skidded off the runway and it was chaos.

Eddie Ho