Sizzling liners were snared out of the air like a falcon taking down a starling.
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He plumped for a bird connection as both countries feature one on their national flags - the UAE has a falcon.
Anquan Boldin's a 49er, Reggie Bush a Lion, Steven Jackson a Falcon, Greg Jennings a Viking and Wes Welker a Bronco.
He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury.
Then the wing of a falcon nearly grazed my son's brow, and the questions flew: How do you train a bird of prey to come home?
Made in 968 for the youngest son of the Caliph of Cordoba, it features men variously listening to music, plucking dates or nabbing eggs from a falcon's nest.
Sokol boarded a Falcon 50EX and sped to Baltimore.
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The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.
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By the time they do all that, and then test it over and over to make it as safe and reliable as they can, they have built a car effectively too amazing for American roads, an offshore powerboat in a bathtub, a falcon in a gilded cage.
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Mobile phone customers have complained about service not being resumed in parts of Southampton after a peregrine falcon nested by a faulty transmitter.
Air Force jets will do a fly-by before a trained falcon flies over the stands and delivers a baseball to Pat Sajak, who will throw out the first pitch.
Nonsense, say the pigeon-owners, who point out that a hawk or falcon attacking a flock of 50 pigeons may get only one of them, but that the rest will be so frightened that they lose their bearings.
On Tuesday, a fresh Falcon 1 sat on the island launch pad with palm trees waving in the background.
Those include a Dassault Falcon 900 private jet and an AgustaWestland helicopter.
The transformation of Michele Bachmann from Tea Party insurgent and cable-news Pasionaria to serious Republican contender in the 2012 Presidential race was nearly complete by late June, when she boarded a Dassault Falcon 900, in Dulles, Virginia, and headed toward the caucus grounds of Iowa.
Well fortified, detour back toward the airport for the fascinating tour (1400 local time, Sunday to Thursday) of the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital where birds of prey are nursed lovingly back to health and whose tour ends with an opportunity to hold a rehabilitated falcon, then head back into town to take high tea at the opulent Emirates Palace Hotel.
His company, Space Exploration Technologies (or "SpaceX"), is developing a rocket called Falcon 1.
An airplane, even a Gulfstream, Bombardier Global Express or Dassault Falcon 7X, is a confined space which you share with others often for long stretches of time.
In full daylight, the Silent Falcon claims a flight time of between six and 14 hours.
SpaceX differs from Lockheed and Boeing in that Falcon is a speculative venture rather than having been commissioned (as Delta and Atlas were) by the government.
But the focus of this particular demo is to show Borderlands 2 running on the handheld (and likely to give a marketing nudge to Falcon Northwest, whose Tiki Gaming PC is featured prominently).
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The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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The case stems from an incident in which Yettaw -- a 53-year-old former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri -- swam across a lake to Suu Kyi's home and stayed for two days.
France's aerospace heavyweight Dassault Aviation pointed to the future last year when it unveiled plans for the Falcon SST, a supersonic business jet.
And if Ares is cancelled another winner may be SpaceX, a small Californian firm that is building a series of rockets called Falcon.
This morning Cape Canaveral launch ops sent into orbit the Falcon 9, a two-stage vehicle designed by the Elon Musk-backed firm SpaceX.
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The company, founded and run by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, currently flies its Falcon rockets from a refurbished and leased pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
In December 2010, when two cracks were discovered at the end on the second-stage engine nozzle on the Falcon 9, a cadre of NASA experts urged extensive analysis and testing before attempting to launch.
In fact, data from every Falcon 1 launch was used to make our two Falcon 9 flights a huge success, which is even more remarkable when you consider that 50% of new rocket designs fail in their first launches.
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