In the world of journalism, meanwhile, some hard thinking is going on about how to stop abuse of the air waves.
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The air was smooth and the air waves silent while we enjoyed the simple joy of flying over yet another landmark city.
Their only chance to hit the air waves was collectively, in a televised debate which Mr Putin had kept well away from.
But when Mr Kejriwal spoke out last week, it swept the air waves and became the biggest talking point in an increasingly cynical nation.
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Others on the centre-left, for instance Mr D'Alema's Blairite colleague, Walter Veltroni, are again bemoaning the effectiveness, and unfairness, of Mr Berlusconi's ready access to the air-waves: the tycoon-cum-politician happily floods his own television channels with advertisements in praise of himself.
This is no comfort as the forecasts continue to be grim, but it is a measure of the complexity of the physics involved - how air moves in waves, why certain patterns form - that more than 60 years later scientists are still wrestling with the question of how the jet stream operates and what shapes it.
Of course, you can also navigate the various panels and screens with the usual hand waves and air pinches, should you feel a bit silly talking to your console.
Gravity waves form when air traveling up and down in the atmosphere meets resistance.
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The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.
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And in between rides, catching big air takes a backseat to catching waves of funding on the beach.
This creates bigger atmospheric waves, pushing warm air north and cold air south.
When its various waves interact with the air, audible sounds emerge.
Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
It seemed to come in waves, wafted across the Channel on the chill January air.
As an aircraft flies it creates waves of pressure as it pushes its way through the air.
Sixty-six NATO aircraft attacking in two waves struck 17 major targets on the fourth day of allied air operations against Yugoslavia.
And as I relaxed the afternoon away, the sounds of waves hitting the beach as the tide rolled in filled the air along with the rhythms of samba playing in the distance.
The air was thick with the din of an insect chorus, while the wind arrived in waves through the bush.
These use light waves to scan individual green beans, which are rejected by a puff of air if they show up as defective.
They found that gravity waves "break" on the surfaces of planes, just like ocean waves breaking on the beach, causing much of the turbulence that occurs out of the blue in clear air.
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