One trip to the supermarket and we can buy anything we want, whether that's fruit grown in South America, tomatoes from Spain, or rice flown in from Asia.
Just a couple of days ago, there was a special product we needed for a ship and we air freighted that from Miami to make sure that we had it on board the ship.
Harpin was unconscious as she was airlifted to a hospital in Miami the next day and woke up in a daze of pain medication to discover she was paralyzed from the waist down.
Yeah, about that...Uh, you know that Christmas present I mentioned? - Don't you dare give me a present in front of all these people! - I'm not sure I can stop it. It's being delivered...by air.
Brigadier General Joseph Smith was appointed task force commander of the American part of the airlift. General Smith called the mission " Operation Vittles, " using an American slang term for food.
And the whole air traffic management and air transport system is set up so that we know where the airplane is at all times and is staying away from other airplanes.
President Biden has described the mission to evacuate tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies from Kabul as one of the biggest, most difficult airlift in history.
The World Food Program is known for dropping bags of grain out of planes in the midst of famines and airlifting tons of rice into villages destroyed by typhoons.
Last week, the U.S government criticized China's decision to cancel a growing number of flights for being “inconsistent with its obligations under the U.S.-China Air Transport Agreement.”