The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The X-15 was the first major investment by the United States in manned space flight technology.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

And in nineteen ninety-eight, at age seventy-seven, he returned to space in an historic flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It was used in nineteen sixty-one during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

He would be launched early in May,nineteen sixty-one, on a short,fifteen minute flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Wiley Post made his famous flight in July, nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

In 1996 Canadian professor David Irvine-Halliday was on a work trip in Nepal when his return flight was canceled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The Sonex and Sikorsky projects are two examples in a growing field of innovation in electric powered flight - most in their infancy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

The attempted bombing by a Nigerian of a U.S.-bound flight has provoked sharp reactions in image-conscious Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Also on board is a new exercise machine, which is part of ongoing studies into the effects of long-term space flight on muscle and bone loss in astronauts.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

His latest statement focused on the need to correct flaws in the aviation security system that allowed the would-be bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Mars-500 is the third in a series of interplanetary flight simulations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

On Saturday,President Obama said an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently trained and equipped the Nigerian man accused in the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

The men,all in their late 20s, were found guilty of plotting to kill thousands by detonating explosives on commercial aircraft while they were in-flight from London to North American destinations in the U.S.and Canada.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07