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A Jet2.com Boeing 737-300 in the former livery in 2011.. In 2002, Channel Express established the Jet2.com brand from Leeds Bradford Airport.The re-branded Jet2.com began operating as a leisure airline with its first flight from Leeds Bradford to Amsterdam on 12 February 2003, which operated a twice-daily rotation with two Boeing 737–300 aircraft.
Uncrewed suborbital space plane. Horizontal takeoff and landing. Dream Chaser: USA: Rocket launch: ... the Buran air lift carrier aircraft. Martin X-23 PRIME: USA ...
A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines.Rocket planes can achieve much higher speeds than similarly sized jet aircraft, but typically for at most a few minutes of powered operation, followed by a gliding flight.
The Rockwell X-30 National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), begun in the 1980s, was an attempt to build a scramjet vehicle capable of operating like an aircraft and achieving orbit like the shuttle. Introduced to the public in 1986, the concept was intended to reach Mach 25, enabling flights between Dulles Airport to Tokyo in two hours, while also ...
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) -British airline and holiday group Jet2 is in advanced talks to buy dozens of narrowbody passenger jets, with Europe's Airbus seen as the front-runner in a potential blow to ...
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Bournemouth bound: Jet2 aircraft taking off from Tenerife, the first destination from the Dorset airport (Getty Images) Bournemouth airport is set to become the location for intense competition ...
In 2002, four Boeing 737 aircraft were purchased with two becoming 737 QC (Quick change) aircraft and two as passenger aircraft. From February 2003, the Jet2 low-cost airline began flying from Leeds Bradford Airport to mainland Europe destinations. Fowler-Welch and Coolchain merged to become Fowler-Welch Coolchain Ltd in 2003.