• Last year, it distracted attention from this failure by unveiling the glamorous new Sonic Cruiser, designed to fly about 20% faster than today's big jets, so cutting an hour off a transatlantic flight.

    ECONOMIST: Boeing v Airbus

  • The German government has issued a warning against all travel to Egypt but is not evacuating citizens, with Lufthansa Airlines operating extra flights in an effort to fly home about 700 people a day.

    BBC: Navigating the traveller exodus out of Egypt

  • He was about to fly back to Argentina on Tuesday when he was told he could stay another week.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Patagonian in visa row leaves

  • Maybe your Darth Vader skivvies endowed you with the Force and those Superman tighties gave you the ability to fly, but what about combining the strength of the Incredible Hulk with the sensuality of Wonder Woman?

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  • Then, while the swearing-in ceremony was under way, security forces detained one of Mr Tsvangirai's ministerial nominees, Roy Bennett, as he was about to fly off to spend the weekend with his family in South Africa, where he has been living in exile for the past three years.

    ECONOMIST: Will Morgan Tsvangirai wield real power? Not yet, it seems

  • And, you can watch a video of Solar Impulse taking off on its North American journey and hear Borschberg talk about learning to fly it after the break.

    ENGADGET

  • For the past few days, everyone from Twitterville to the mainstream media has been abuzz about the Kevin Smith too fat to fly incident.

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  • He describes the brothers trying to fly a homemade plane and tells about being left on the side of the road after an argument during a road trip.

    NPR: 'I Love Mysteries,' Says Man Claiming Hidden Gold

  • When he's in line to fly, he wants better explanations about TSA procedures and to know that more money is steered toward intelligence instead of "unconstitutional" scans and pat-downs.

    CNN: How much do we really hate the TSA?

  • So, again, I just want to stress that the military options that we talk about are not limited to a no-fly zone, but include a no-fly zone as an option.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • She also announced, Mobile Chatter and features that allow a sales rep to get briefed on the people he or she is about to meet with on realtime and on the fly.

    FORBES: Salesforce Dreamforce Opens to 72,000 Attendees

  • The airport expects nearly 237, 000 people to fly in or out on Monday, about 25% more than on a normal day.

    CNN: Athletes fret on lost bus as wave of Olympic arrivals begins

  • With no air traffic to worry about, visiting pilots can fly in formation above the spread, stow their planes in his 17, 000-square-foot hangar and, at night, listen to dogfight tales from honored guests like World War II ace Col.

    FORBES: A Wildcatter In Love With Warbirds

  • The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.

    NPR: Revisiting the Viking Missions to Mars

  • Boeing is still sounding out customers about a 747 big enough to carry 500 passengers (about 100 more than the jumbos that fly on long-haul routes today), but has already reworked the 747's electronics and digitised the original fuselage drawings, which date back to the 1960s.

    ECONOMIST: Aircraft manufacture

  • British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is due to fly to Moscow for talks with Mr Putin about Syria on Friday, said there was an urgent need to "force a political transition" in Damascus.

    BBC: Syria conflict: US says Assad can have no post-war role

  • The trip from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance of about 1, 120km, costs far more by road than it does to fly.

    ECONOMIST: Cars in China

  • The English and Welsh teams have also yet to make final decisions about taking part, though the first group of 22 English athletes is expected to fly out to Delhi on Thursday.

    BBC: Delhi Games will meet standard, foreign minister says

  • While Americans might not associate developing world hospitals with high-quality care, and there have been horror stories about botched procedures, patients willing to fly across the globe stand to gain.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • With Fly Your Ideas we want to excite young people about aviation and the fascinating opportunities it holds' said Charles Champion, Executive Vice-President Engineering at Airbus and Fly Your Ideas Patron.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • But within individual member countries, the admiral said, "there's a great deal of discussion" about lethal support to Syria, no-fly zones, arms embargoes and more.

    NPR: Commander: Contingency Plans Under Way For Syria

  • Little-known truth about modern jets: They are silly simple to fly.

    FORBES: I Love Jets

  • The Treetops Luxury Lodge and Estate in Rotorua, New Zealand, for example, offers everything from fly-fishing tutorials to a food tour that teaches guests about local cuisine and culture.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Dutch non-attached MEP Lucas Hartong criticised the conference, ridiculing the fact that "hundreds of people will fly and emit CO2, on the way to a conference about reducing CO2 emissions".

    BBC: MEPs criticise 'downcast' mood ahead of climate summit

  • Byrd threw on the fly to catcher John Buck, and the ball beat Barney by about 15 feet.

    WSJ: Harvey improves to 5-0, leads Mets over Cubs 3-2

  • "We're saying it's way too expensive to fly long-haul today, and we're doing something about it, " he says.

    BBC: Norwegian airline prepares for global expansion

  • Marlon Byrd threw on the fly to catcher John Buck, and the ball beat Barney by about 15 feet.

    WSJ: Thrown out: Cubs lose to Mets 3-2

  • The blocking of plans for the Queen Mother to fly to Iran in Concorde by Harold Wilson because he was worried about the plane's safety.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Nuclear secrets of 1975 revealed

  • All that is required is for a large asteroid, about 100 km (62 miles) across, to fly past the Earth transferring some of its orbital energy to our planet.

    BBC: Blue Marble Nasa

  • And people who covered that story say that after the arms embargo was instituted it took about a year for a no-fly zone to be instituted, another three years to get everybody to the peace table in Dayton, and that basically this was sort of a model of inaction, not action, by the international community.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

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