When you learn to fly an airplane under instrument conditions, you have to multi-task.

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In one game, Pilotwings Resorts, players fly an airplane around an island, steering through hoops or popping balloons.

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The desire to fly an airplane has been shown to represent one aspect of a sensation-seeking personality, a genetic trait associated with risky behavior involving driving, sex, sports and vocation, according to psychology studies.

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But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.

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Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.

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As you know, we've never had an airplane fly through any atmosphere outside the Earth, and we believe that an airplane, an aerial vehicle, combines the best features of an orbiter and a rover.

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Or in-flight flight, which grants its bearer the ability to fly like a bird, but only within the confines of an airplane.

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"If you're on an aircrew, you can just pick up a model of the airplane that you fly, " he said.

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