• Creatures flying in the air, and on the ground.

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  • They are gathered up and injected into the quantum experiment at speeds of around five meters per second - just a hundredth the speed of the molecules flying around in the air.

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  • As happened a decade or so ago, the airlines flying in the open air fear unfair competition from those flying under the protection of the courts.

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  • Literally uplifting, "Promenade" shows the artist with a broad grin on his face, flying his wife in the air like a kite.

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  • He looked to see water and wood flying into the air in the distance.

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  • Otherwise, the people who are flying on the next 787 that goes up in the air may not be as lucky as the ones in Boston and Japan.

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  • However, when the Flying Circus finally took to the air in October it was clear that their efforts had surpassed Milligan's.

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  • During this period it did not apply for a permit and when it next applied for a permit to fly in UK air space, in May 2002, it was granted, and it has since been flying regularly in British air space with the full approval of British safety officials.

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  • He fights the bad guys by flying through the air and engaging them in a rhythmic version of kung fu that has the clickety-clack excitement of tap dancing.

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  • Five grand in the flying world is three months of fixed costs before I ever get the plane in the air.

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  • It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.

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  • Meanwhile, instead of letting the ribbons go, the girls had stayed attached to them, and the moon had lifted them up, sending them flying over the parapet and off the bridge: they described arcs in the air like divers and disappeared into the water.

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  • But within days of their arrival at Archers Post, about 220 miles (350km) north of Nairobi, they were accused of illegally conducting their own safaris from the air, flying helicopters alarmingly low and scaring off the animals in the nearby game reserves.

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  • Twenty years ago, Congress lifted the ban on women flying in attack aircraft, and now the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force all have women pilots.

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  • And, because flying the behemoth was now possible, the Army gained a decisive air advantage in the Second World War which enabled its devastating bombing campaign across Nazi Germany.

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  • In 1979, an Air Zealand DC-10 flying from Auckland to the South Pole hit Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

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  • Mr. Moretti said 15 Costa engineers, technicians and other officials were flying to Mahe in hope of reaching the Allegra by air to repair its generators.

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  • Armadillo came close to winning the X Prize Foundation's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.

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  • Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.

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  • The report calls for accelerating the use of the global positioning satellite system (GPS) in U.S. airspace and ultimately linking GPS and the air traffic control system to provide better and safer separation for planes flying in the United States.

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  • He's the public relations man at the local Air Force base who issued the quickly retracted "flying saucer" statement in 1947.

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  • Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.

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  • Only two aircraft, one flying from New York and one from Montreal will be in the air that night, he said.

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  • The two orders, once fulfilled, would put the airline in the world's top 10 by number of aircraft, although Lion Air is banned from flying within both the 27-nation European Union and the US. because of fears that its safety standards are not up to scratch.

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  • In 1913, No.2 Squadron Royal Flying Corps established the air station at Montrose to protect the Royal Navy.

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  • Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to cross the Atlantic by air in June 1919, flying in a Vickers Vimy biplane, its bomb bays filled with extra fuel.

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  • "I'm always happiest flying, " I told him truthfully, for I was born in the air, and it was more home to me than earth.

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  • The screens detail the day's flights, the airlines, terminal and departure times, while the three new check-in kiosks allow customers flying on Delta Air Lines Inc.

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  • "All I know was I was in the air, hitting seats, bouncing around, flying down the aisle and finally I came to a stop on one seat, " Lola Oliver, 49, of Bridgeport, told The Associated Press.

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