• After reviewing the ideas and picking the best of the best, Edison Nation will fly up to 50 inventors to Charlotte for an in-person extravaganza.

    FORBES: National Inventors Month Everyday Edisons Program Showcases Local Inventions and Boy Scouts

  • With a Parajet on your back, you can fly up to 2, 500 meters (8, 000 feet), traveling a distance of 160km (100 miles) at a speed of up to 75kph (46mph).

    CNN: Flying 'Parajet' takes off

  • The "Today" show paid for the jurors to fly up to New York and for one night at a hotel, which is standard practice for any out-of-town guest, an NBC spokeswoman said.

    WSJ: John Edwards Jury Saw Guilt, but Lack of Proof

  • Those first eager customers are expecting to get their hands on a plane that can fly up to 12 passengers more than 7, 400km (4, 600 miles) at speeds of up to 1, 700kph (1, 050mph), or 1.6 times the speed of sound, over sea and approved land corridors.

    ECONOMIST: Business jets

  • X-43C to fly for up to five minutes, rather than a mere ten seconds.

    ECONOMIST: Hypersonic aviation

  • It can fly at up to 2.5 times the speed of sound and is designed for low-altitude, high-speed, precision attacks.

    BBC: News | In Depth | Military Fact Files

  • Black Hawks can be launched from aircraft carriers and can fly for up to 1, 000 nautical miles if fitted with additional fuel pods.

    BBC: News | In Depth | Military Fact Files

  • Powered by battery, the Black Hornet is reported to have a range of about half a mile (800m), a top speed of 22mph (35kph) and can fly for up to 30 minutes.

    BBC: Mini helicopter drone for UK troops in Afghanistan

  • On Monday, at Belfast City Council, nationalist councillors had wanted the flag at Belfast City Hall taken down altogether, but they voted on a compromise from the Alliance party that it would fly on up to 20 designated days.

    BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly session over flag disturbances

  • They were so anxious to bring Gaborik to the team, the Blue Jackets sent a private plane to pick him up and fly him to Nashville, where the Blue Jackets are scheduled to play the Predators on Thursday night.

    WSJ: Rangers deal slumping star Gaborik to Blue Jackets

  • The Global Hawk can fly missions for up to 36 hours, three times the flying time of a U-2, due to the lifting of pilot restrictions.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Future of Unmanned Flight

  • The south is also protected by a no-fly zone, up to the 33rd parallel, but this is an area where Iraqi security forces operate openly and organised opposition is weak.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

  • Six months later, the Sex Pistols fell apart - allegedly because of McLaren's plan to fly them to Brazil to hook up with Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, one publicity stunt too many for Johnny Rotten.

    BBC: Malcolm McLaren: The man and the music

  • Inventor Elwood "Woody" Norris first developed high-end stereo speakers, an alarm that signals when a hip replacement has worn out, and now the next logical creation the AirScooter II, a personal aircraft that can hover or fly at speeds up to 55 knots.

    ENGADGET: The AirScooter II personal flying vehicle

  • European critics have said the current deal offers greater advantage to U.S. carriers by allowing them to operate within the EU. An American airline can, for example, fly from New York to London, where they could pick up passengers and then fly to Germany.

    CNN: Open Skies: the bell rings for round two

  • "They have misbehaved, the football club has been let down and because of that they are coming back home, " said the Foxes boss, who had been due to fly out today to link up with the squad.

    BBC: News Online

  • "I wouldn't want to see a pilot turning up to fly a plane in shorts and flip-flops, and patients don't want to see a doctor dressed in the kind of thing he or she might wear down to the pub, " says Professor Colin Brown, a retired renal consultant from Sheffield.

    BBC: Doctors

  • Among the accusations: The bank encouraged its American customers to open accounts in the name of Lichtenstein foundations to conceal their ownership, and it advised them how to set up their investments to fly under the radar of the Qualified Intermediary program.

    FORBES: Tax Havens Under Attack By Congress

  • They needed a quick score in the second half and got one thanks to some sloppy work from Nick Williams, who failed to deal with a Humphreys kick to the left corner which allowed the Ulster fly-half to run up and touch the ball down.

    BBC: Ulster 30-6 Aironi

  • As bees fly, they generate up to 450 volts of static electricity, which causes pollen grains to jump on.

    FORBES: The Buzz

  • It's just that now it's up to him to make it fly.

    BBC: It's lift-off - at a price of ?52m

  • Designed to complement Boeing's Apache attack helicopter, the lesser-armed Comanche will operate up to four unmanned drones that fly ahead to scout for enemy targets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And, yes, these passengers actually got dressed up to fly.

    FORBES: What Brands Can Learn From Pan Am--The Airline And The Show

  • Six minutes to follow the path around the pond, an additional three minutes to fly up the hillside like a delivering wraith or mercy-angel, bearing the simple gift of a coat.

    NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

  • Over the course of the past eight months, I recruited several other participants, most of them fellow Wolverines, to give up their own weekends to fly to Ann Arbor for this workshop.

    FORBES: 4 Lessons Professionals Can Learn from College Students

  • Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.

    CNN: Neil Armstrong, a hero who shunned fame

  • There is even a plan for a naval port in Nanisivik, in the territory of Nunavut, and up to eight Arctic patrol vessels to fly the flag in the increasingly ice-free far north.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's military

  • Such commercial aircraft are not insured to fly in combat zones, even to pick up wounded soldiers.

    ECONOMIST: Choppers are vital��and hard to find

  • Budding entrepreneurs usually had to fly in a lawyer from San Francisco to draw up the papers.

    FORBES: Startup City

  • But with the new upscale shopping centers and five-star hotels that have recently opened, coupled with a planned redevelopment of the old Kai Tak airport where planes used to fly in next to skyscrapers, Kowloon is looking up.

    FORBES: Kowloon's Hip Newer Hotels Give An Edge To Tsim Sha Tsui

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