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clean aircraft

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1. An aircraft in flight configuration (versus landing configuration); i.e., landing gear and flaps retracted, etc.
2. An aircraft that does not have external stores.


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Paul International Airport staged a brief walkout yesterday to protest the hiring of nonunion contract workers to clean aircraft, part of NWA's effort to slash costs to emerge from bankruptcy.
We have had a number of requests for this service from aircraft owners who arrive in late afternoon or early evening and want a clean aircraft for flights the next morning," said Sandy Waters, vice president of KaiserAir, the primary fixed base operator at Oakland International Airport.
EcoPower is a closed-loop system that uses atomized water rather than detergents to clean aircraft engines at approximately 20% power, meaning that washing can be done at the gate.
 
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