In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic.
Greedy politicians understand that high taxes may simply lead the geese with the golden eggs to fly across the border.
Today, Solar Impulse's pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, came to NASA's Ames research center to announce their plan to fly across America.
Its creators said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.
We also watched sustainable transportation soar to new heights this week as the world's first solar-powered blimp prepares to fly across the English Channel.
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Eventually, they will fly across the Channel as they migrate southwards.
While Americans might not associate developing world hospitals with high-quality care, and there have been horror stories about botched procedures, patients willing to fly across the globe stand to gain.
In 1911 American airship pioneer Melvin Vaniman built the Akron, a hydrogen-filled, Goodyear Blimp-size craft in which he and his crew intended to be the first to fly across the Atlantic.
Nigerian who managed to bypass security and fly across the U.S. with a day-old boarding pass, I got to thinking about boarding pass security and what the TSA can do about it if they would just use their imagination.
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The visitors' lacklustre play was epitomised when a well-worked free-kick saw Nani play in Evra on the left only for his low whipped ball to fly across the Villa goalmouth without a team-mate showing a desire to get to it.
Should any of you want to join along with Piccard and Borschberg as they fly across the country, you can hit the Solar Impulse Across America website to see a livestream from the cockpit, along with real-time altitude, air speed and battery status of the aircraft.
When Doug Tompkins wants to drop in on his neighbor, the best way to do so -- in fact, the only way to do so -- is to fire up his Cessna 206 and fly across the vast subtropical wetlands that he owns in this remote corner of northeastern Argentina.
And Concorde's limited range means that it cannot fly supersonically across the world's largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
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Villa's defence allowed Malouda's driven cross to fly right across the face of goal, leaving Lampard to steal in for a sliding finish at the far post.
Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, helped found an influential organization for female pilots and wrote three best-selling books about her flying experiences.
Red Bull sponsors some 500 athletes around the world, the type who will surf in Nova Scotia in January or jump out of a plane to "fly" across the English Channel.
Rather than spend time locating the right people to brainstorm and then fly them across the country to meet, Experian opened a "campaign" around the subject and invited more than 1, 000 employees from two business units to participate.
Grouping the nation's patients and livers into fewer, larger regions might allow broader allocation without the risks of having to fly organs across the country (even with the best care, livers can last only half a day on ice).
Lecturers could also lecture from wherever they are (home, office, classroom), and we can invite the best lecturers for a variety of topics without having to fly them across the globe - not a minor detail in a carbon-conscious world.
Banks will no longer have to fly paper cheques across the country, but the new system will be costly too worthwhile only for fairly large payments drawn on banks far away.
You could literally be having to fly all the way across the United States.
Instrumented planes, guided by GPS, fly back and forth across the ice in campaigns that can last weeks at a time.
This is the final stop on our 48-hour fly-around all across America.
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And it certainly won't make any difference to all the travelers who fly in jet airplanes across the country and seldom look down.
"All the big pioneers of the 20th century have tried to fly coast to coast across America, " said co-pilot and one of the plane's founders, Bertrand Piccard.
"All the big pioneers of the 20th century have tried to fly coast to coast across America, " Piccard, one of the plane's founders, said before the flight.
All that is required is for a large asteroid, about 100 km (62 miles) across, to fly past the Earth transferring some of its orbital energy to our planet.
By his own admission, Fen Montaigne had been fishing only for a few years and only once before for Atlantic salmon when he conceived the idea of fly-fishing his way across Russia in three months.
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Washington (CNN) -- A pilot in Minnesota who was preparing to fly a commercial jet halfway across the country was arrested after a security agent smelled alcohol on him and he failed a preliminary breath test, airport police said Friday.
Chris Malone twice had a chance to level the scores either side of the half-hour mark, but each time the Quins fly-half pushed his kick across the posts.
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