It also set a record for round-the-world flight time at 42 hours and 27 minutes.
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The good news in a flight-less world is that Britain would still get enough to eat.
Bertrand Piccard, the plane's other creator, and Borschberg are planning an around-the-world flight in an improved version of the plane in 2015.
After serving as a flight instructor during World War II, he turned down an airline pilot's career and returned to the workshop.
At the ceremony Boeing affirmed that the virgin test flight of the world's first big airliner to be made largely of composite materials, rather than aluminium, would take place by the end of June.
They achieved one of the most hotly contested aviation goals on Saturday when they passed over Mauritania and crossed the 9 degrees west longitude mark -- the official finish line for their flight around the world.
It was not the stiff white dragonfly GlobalFlyer, a delicate construction of carbon fibre with all its interstices filled with fuel, in which in 2005 he had made the first non-stop solo flight round the world.
United Airlines also suffered widespread computer-network problems last summer that caused hundreds of flight delays around the world.
Not too long ago, Forbes ranked this one of the top three worst airports in the world for flight delays.
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Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, used the example of Trans World Airlines flight 800, which crashed into the ocean in 1996.
Of the group that came to Charlotte this summer, many had never been on an escalator, let alone a flight halfway around the world.
Near-zero interest rates tag the dollar as the flight currency of choice for world markets.
Canada's CAE (12, CGT ) is the world leader in flight simulators and pilot training.
The handful of dragons, the illusory sunset over Anor Londo, the last molten gasps of the Age of Fire, the onset of darkness and the flight of hope from the world these are all things going on in the original Dark Souls.
He was promoted to flight lieutenant towards the end of World War II before becoming an instructor at RAF Finningley.
The Eclipse is the new world champ of slow jet flight--cruising, descending or landing.
But in a boost to the campaign, Sven Goran Erikson's England team were persuaded to take precautionary measures before their flight to the Far East for the World Cup finals.
Robots are spreading in the civilian world, too, from the flight deck to the operating theatre (see article).
All 50 of the Boeing 787s in use around the world remain grounded after an ANA flight on Jan. 16 made an emergency landing in Japan when its main battery overheated.
We also saw greener transportation take to the skies as Finnair launched the world's longest biofueled commercial flight, Scaled Composites launched its bipod flying car, and the US Air Force announced plans to replace 50 percent of its domestic fuels with biofuels by 2016.
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Signature Flight built its business on the ability to provide world-class customer service.
The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.
He was three years old the first time Orville Wright took the first ever flight in an airplane and barely a teenager when World War I broke out.
The worldwide fleet of more than 7, 000 King Air turboprops serves a wide variety of missions and has amassed more than 50 million flight hours while operating in 115 countries around the world.
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With that went the island's chief link to the outside world (though there is still a weekly flight to Britain).
And last year, defence firm Qinetiq flew a solar-powered plane for 54 hours, smashing the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
Thousands of flight cancellations left near a million stuck in airports around the world on Thursday and Friday.
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Also for pre-planning, the free Flight Calculator Windows app estimates carbon emissions for flights around the world and gives an option to immediately purchase offsets that fund a range of verified projects from Carbon Footprint Ltd.
The Jabulani ball being used in South Africa for the World Cup has been widely criticised because of its irregular flight.
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