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  • I believe the Achille Lauro incident may have in 85 and if so it is likely that the fly-away package would have included 1 or 2 ordnance support guys.

    DAVID DUANE CONNER 2010

  • Under the 126 fighter-jet order, the first 18 jets will be bought in "fly-away" condition and the remainder will be produced with the selected vendor in India.

    India to Make Fighter Choice in a Month Santanu Choudhury 2011

  • There was nothing brilliant nor fly-away about him.

    A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

  • Dave was as steady and solid as she was fickle and fly-away, and in some way Dave, who never doubted anybody, doubted her.

    Flush of Gold 2010

  • Oh, old Von Blix is all right, a solid sort of chap in his fashion; but Tudor is fly-away -- too much on the surface, you know.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Boeing and ANA officially will celebrate the first Dreamliner delivery here on Monday, followed by a fly-away event on Tuesday.

    Boeing Delivers First Dreamliner David Kesmodel 2011

  • Under the 126 fighter-jet order, the first 18 jets will be bought in "fly-away" condition and the remainder will be produced with a selected vendor in India.

    India May Sign Fighter Jet Deal by March Santanu Choudhury 2011

  • For the first time his honourable career of building a county commonwealth had been questioned — and by a chit of a girl, the daughter of a wastrel, herself but a flighty, fly-away, foreign creature.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Under the 126 fighter-jet order, the first 18 jets will be bought in "fly-away" condition and the remainder will be produced with the selected vendor in India.

    India to Open Bids Friday for 126 Fighter Jets Santanu Choudhury 2011

  • It's a breath of old times, alas! all forgotten in these fly-away days.

    CHAPTER III 2010

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