To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

During the flight, they separated the lunar lander from the command module and flew it for eight hours.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

In nineteen fifty-six, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

His tall hat flew off and soldiers found it on the ground with a bullet hole through it.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke flew Apollo Sixteen to the moon in April,nineteen seventy-two.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

But he flew one hundred eighty-seven kilometers high, and four hundred eighty kilometers from the launch pad.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

I flew as fast as I could to the building that produced the atmosphere of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

On April twelfth,nineteen sixty-one, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew in space for one hundred eight minutes.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

He set new records when he flew his own airplane around the world in nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

She flew in an allied bombing attack on a German airfield at El Aouina in Tunisia.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

They flew from Los Angeles,California to New York City in fourteen hours and forty-five minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Other experts have said the Microraptor probably flew with its back wings a little under and in a direction like that of the front wings.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Astronauts in NASA's Mercury Program flew the first American space flights in the early nineteen-sixties.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Stafford and Cernan flew the lander down to only thirteen kilometers from the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Her eyes flew open. She could hear the steady rainfall on the roof top.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It seemed to be attracted by Beatrice and flew once around her head.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

They moved closer and closer together as they flew across the Indian Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The number two plane flew seven thousand two hundred thirty-two kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

For long hours he flew, listening only to the sound of his engine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

In 1950, Robert Fulton flew his Airphibian to National Airport in Washington, D.C.

VOA: special.2009.01.14