To raise pubilc and political awareness about the benefits of going green and increasing energy efficiency -- and perhaps pick up an additional sponsor or two for its second-gen aircraft (currently in development) meant to fly around the world in 2015.
Planes such as Boeing 777s (of which it is the biggest buyer) and Airbus A380s (ditto: 15 are already flying and 90 are on order) can fly anywhere in the world from Dubai.
Johnson was a ships captain who lived in Freeland, Washington and was employed by a company based in Jacksonville, FL. He would fly to whatever port in the world his ship happened to be docked in to meet it.
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Presidential candidates do not usually fly around the world in their own personalised versions of Air Force One.
The best fly-halves in the world can kick, pass and read the game.
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Solar Impulse, which is also the name of the company, is working on a second plane that the two founders plane to fly around the world in 2015.
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In the fly-fishing world, bamboo rods are an enduring foundation, and Morgan mastered this old art.
Their 41 code share partners will fly you almost anywhere in the world (no flights to Latin America from the U.S.).
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Yet Inmarsat's birds cover almost the entire world: They fly in geosynchronous orbit (GEOs, as they're known) 36, 000 kilometers above the earth and thus have large footprints.
Football fans planning to fly out to the World Cup in South Africa could also be affected, with the last of the five-day stoppages beginning on the weekend before the tournament starts.
Airplanes are built to fly and, as long as it is not the only example of its type in the world, it seems perfectly legitimate to have it fly.
Hawaii has some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and tourists fly thousands of miles to see its white sand beaches and stunning volcanoes.
They managed to fly for nearly 20 seconds in December 1993, a world record that stood for years.
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The team won the national finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup and will fly to St Petersburg in Russia in July for the world finals.
Key parameters can even be adjusted on the fly for specific testing scenarios to make breaking world records in performance even easier.
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Where Andy Warhol mused everyone will be famous for 15 minutes and that brave new world where animated TV family The Jetsons fly around in domed bubble cars to get from point A to point B.
Despite being on the fringes of the squad, the 22-year-old fly-half was not selected for the 2007 World Cup in France, and his decision to join the new Melbourne Rebels Super 15 franchise on a two-year deal has all but ended his chances of playing at the 2011 tournament in New Zealand.
Some 10 million visitors fly in and out of the country every year from all over the world (though one popular destination, the vacation island of Phuket, is about an hour's flight from either Singapore or Bangkok).
But two muffed fly balls by Wilson in center field--this was long before night World Series games, meaning that late-afternoon sun could be a big factor--contributed to a furious A's rally that didn't let up until 10 runs had crossed the plate.
In the natural-gas world, champagne corks do not usually fly unless a well gives up over 10m cubic feet of gas a day.
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.
James injured his shoulder in the act of scoring and the World Cup-winning South Africa fly-half was forced out of the action.
Here's a woman so clearly in love with the natural world, dedicating her life to killing a fly just because it's a nuisance.
Hurricane Fly looked to have the hurdling world at his feet after a superb novice season, which culminated in a runaway success at this meeting 12 months ago.
It is hard to think of a better way to satirise all this excess than for the world's best-known environmentalist to fly from Pennsylvania to Florida and back again in the space of a few hours.
The Great Bear might fly under the radar, but this is one of the largest remaining tracks of temperate rainforest left in the world.
After viewing one of his talks on YouTube, organizers of World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi invited Aidan to participate and offered to fly his family over, too.
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Each time, she kept the printout of his flight information behind a magnet on the door of the refrigerator, and on the days he was scheduled to fly she watched the news, to make sure there hadn't been a plane crash anywhere in the world.
In one generation, Dubai has graduated from a village that people just fly over, to an instant city in the desert, to a destination for migrant workers and expatriates, to a world financial center and demographic microcosm of the planet.
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